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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article D212-71

The operators of cinematographic entertainment establishments may use different categories of tariffs that they determine for the admission of spectators.Each of the tariff categories is associated wi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-7

Without prejudice to the prerogatives of the territorially competent public prosecutors, the public prosecutor of the place where the departure station of a passenger rail transport vehicle is located…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title XXI: Communication by electronic means.

Article 748-7

Where a document must be completed before the expiry of a time limit and cannot be sent electronically on the last day of the time limit for reasons beyond the control of the person completing it, the…

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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 706-7

Where criminal proceedings have been instituted, the commission's decision may be taken before a ruling has been made on the public prosecution. The commission may, for the application of the last par…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXII: Referral to the Cour de cassation for an opinion

Article 706-70

The notice shall be sent to the court that requested it, to the public prosecutor at that court, to the first president of the court of appeal and to the public prosecutor where the request does not o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIII: The use of telecommunications during proceedings

Article 706-71

In the interests of the proper administration of justice, audiovisual means of telecommunication may be used in the course of criminal proceedings, if the magistrate in charge of the proceedings or th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-76

The public prosecutor, the investigating judge, the specialised correctional panel of the judicial court and the assize court referred to in Article 706-75 exercise, throughout the jurisdiction determ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-78

The order made pursuant to article 706-77 may, to the exclusion of all other means of appeal, be referred within five days of its notification, at the request of the public prosecutor or the parties,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-7

Measures concerning the increase in the security period, conditional release or suspension of sentence which do not fall within the jurisdiction of the sentence enforcement judge are granted, postpone…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article 723-7

The sentence enforcement judge may provide that the sentence will be served under the regime of home detention under electronic surveillance defined by the Article 132-26 of the Criminal Code either i…

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