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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Information

Article L7222-22

Councillors to the Assembly of Martinique have the right to put oral questions at a meeting concerning the affairs of the territorial authority. These questions are answered by the President of the Ex…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Indemnities of holders of office in the Martinique Assembly and of office in the Executive Council

Article L7227-22

The councillor of the Martinique Assembly, the president of the Executive Council or the executive councillor who holds other electoral mandates or who sits in this capacity on the board of directors…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Conditions for issuing, suspending or revoking approval for bodies providing training for local elected representatives (R)

Article R1221-22

At the end of the training course or session, the organisation issues the elected representative with a certificate specifying the exact nature of the training received. Where the elected representati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: National gendarmerie units

Article R15-22

The services or units of the national gendarmerie within which officers and agents of the judicial police carry out their usual duties and whose jurisdiction extends to the whole of the national terri…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-22

The file of the criminal proceedings is returned, together with a copy of the decision, to the first president of the court of appeal for transmission to the court that handed down the decision to dis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Placement in an anti-seizure bracelet

Article R24-22

If the prohibition on contact imposed on the accused person leads, in particular as a result of contact attributable both to his movements and to those of the victim, to a large number of alerts that…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article R50-22

The commission's decision shall be notified without delay, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, to the applicant and to the guarantee fund.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R61-22

The functionalities and approval procedures for the process enabling placement under mobile electronic surveillance are determined by the dispositions de l'article R. 544-7 du code pénitentiaire.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Declaration of a witness's address at a police station or gendarmerie brigade

Article R53-22

Where the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 706-57, the record of the statements made by the person heard shall mention the authorisation given by the public prosecutor or the investigating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Provisions applicable in the event of dismissal

Article D32-22

When a person who has been placed under house arrest with electronic surveillance is notified of a decision to dismiss the case, he or she shall be notified of his or her right to compensation, in acc…

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