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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R57-15

…person concerned that he or she may at any time request that a doctor check that the implementation of the procedure described in article R. 622-1 du code pénitentiaire does not present a health risk…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R57-14

In the case provided for in the second paragraph of Article 723-7, the written agreement of the owner, or of the holder(s) of the lease for the premises where the receiver may be installed, is obtaine…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Provisions common to all prisons

Article R57-6-5

…pplicable to relations between detainees and their defence counsel are determined by the provisions of articles R. 313-14, R. 313-15 and R. 313-16 of the penitentiary code.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R57-13

…udge or the sentence enforcement judge, or when he or she is considering ordering such a measure ex officio, may instruct the prison integration and probation service to ensure the availability of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Judicial remedies to guarantee the right to respect for dignity in detention

Article R249-39

The decisions of the President of the Investigating Chamber or the President of the Penal Enforcement Chamber shall state the reasons on which they are based.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R298

Article R. 73 is worded as follows: "Art. R. 73.-Where the communication of notices of conviction is provided for by international conventions, copies of the records are drawn up and sent by the regis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R300

…75.-When a court has handed down a decision against a French national that entails the deprivation of electoral rights, the court clerk shall draw up on a special form, and irrespective of the age an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R284

…1, summonses, information and decisions are made, as far as the applicant is concerned, in the form of registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or administrative notification against a receip…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R295

The first two paragraphs of article R. 70 are worded as follows: "Records shall be withdrawn from the criminal record and destroyed by the registrar of the court of first instance in the following cas…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R254

In New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the tariff of legal costs provided for in this code in euros is converted into the local currency taking into account the equivale…

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