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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking transactions, payment services, issuance and management of electronic money

Article R754-3

…312-9 and R. 312-10no. 2020-1565 of 10 December 2020R. 312-11No. 2014-737 of 30 June 2014R. 312-12n° 2020-1565 of 10 December 2020R. 312-13 to R. 312-17n° 2014-737 of 30 June 2014R. 312-18, with the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : The Regional Economic and Social Council

Article R4134-1

…t to the décret du 22 avril 2002 pris pour l'application du premier alinéa de l'article 8 de la loi n° 2001-624 du 17 juillet 2001 et relatif à l'agrément des associations de jeunesse et d'éducation p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 75-3

The duration of a preliminary investigation may not exceed two years from the first act of the investigation, including if this act occurred as part of a flagrante delicto investigation. The prelimina…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI: Witness protection

Article 706-62-2

Without prejudice to the application of Article 706-58, in the event of proceedings relating to a felony or misdemeanour mentioned in articles 628,706-73 and 706-73-1, where the hearing of a person re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-7

The information contained in the file shall be directly accessible, via a secure telecommunications system:1° To the judicial authorities;2° To officers of the judicial police, in the context of proce…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Provisions relating to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article 723-37

When placement under judicial supervision has been ordered against a person sentenced to a term of criminal imprisonment of fifteen years or more for one of the offences referred to in article 706-53-…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 777

Bulletin no. 3 is the record of the following convictions handed down by a national court for a felony or misdemeanour, where they are not excluded from Bulletin no. 2:1° Sentences involving deprivati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Permission to leave

Article D142

Permission to go out is granted for one or more outings. It authorises the convicted offender to go to a place on national territory. It may be subject to one or more conditions, in particular the obl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article A36-10-3

The syllabus for the technical examination is as follows: Criminal procedure Public prosecution and civil action: general concepts. Authorities invested by law with judicial police missions: - the jud…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Organisation of the commune

Article L2573-12

…t concessions. 4° Pour l'application du 5° du I, les mots : " des 1° et 2° de l'article 3 de la loi n° 84-53 du 26 janvier 1984 portant dispositions statutaires relatives à la fonction publique territ…

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