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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 802-1

Where, pursuant to this code, the public prosecutor or a court is seised of a request which must be answered by a reasoned decision subject to appeal, in the absence of a reply within two months of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 802-3

Where at least one of the offences prosecuted falls within a category of offences for the trial of which the court has, pursuant to the provisions of this code, concurrent and specialised territorial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter XII: Enforcement procedures

Article 873-1

The first paragraph of Article

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 803-5

For the application of the right of a suspected or accused person, provided for by III of Preliminary Article, to an interpreter or a translation, the present article shall apply.If there is any doubt…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 800-2

…discharges the accused, acquits the accused or makes any decision other than a conviction or a declaration that the accused is not criminally responsible may award the person prosecuted for a crimin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 803-2

Any person who is brought before the investigating judge after being held in police custody or detained at the request of the public prosecutor or the sentence enforcement judge must appear the same d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter XII: Enforcement procedures

Article 868-2

In New Caledonia, where the convicted person is a minor, the service responsible for the judicial protection of children or its director carries out the duties devolved, as appropriate, to the prison…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Investigations

Article 814-2

In the Wallis and Futuna Islands, if, when the death certificate referred to in article 87 of the Civil Code, the identity of the deceased has not been established, authorisation to close the coffin m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Investigating courts

Article 823-1

The provisions of article 706-71 are applicable to the adversarial hearing prior to the remand in custody of a free person, held by the liberty and custody judge of the Nouméa court of first instance…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VII: Trial of offences

Article 844-1

For the application of article 474 in New Caledonia, where the sentenced person is a minor, the service responsible for the judicial protection of children shall exercise the functions devolved to the…

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