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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 15

The judicial police comprise:1° Officers of the judicial police;2° Judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers;3° Investigation assistants of the national police and the national gend…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 159

The investigating judge appoints the expert responsible for carrying out the expert examination. If the circumstances justify it, he appoints several experts.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 151

The examining magistrate may request by letter rogatory any judge of his court, any examining magistrate or any officer of the judicial police, who shall in this case notify the public prosecutor, to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 152

The magistrates or judicial police officers assigned to carry out the investigation exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, all the powers of the investigating judge. However, the judicial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 154

The provisions of articles 61-1 and 61-2 relating to the hearing of a suspected person or a victim as well as Articles 61-3 and 62-2 to 64-1 are applicable during the execution of letters rogatory. Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 156

Any investigating or trial court, where a technical question arises, may, either at the request of the public prosecutor or of its own motion, or at the request of the parties, order an expert report.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 157

Experts are chosen from natural or legal persons who appear on the national list drawn up by the Cour de cassation or on one of the lists drawn up by the Courts of Appeal under the conditions provided…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 158

The mission of the experts, which can only be to examine technical issues, is specified in the decision ordering the expertise.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation for detention

Article 150

The compensation awarded pursuant to this sub-section shall be borne by the State, except for recourse by the latter against the informer in bad faith or the false witness whose fault caused the deten…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to all bonded warehouses.

Article 157

…e period for the goods to remain in the warehouse set by the administration or by the Community regulations in force, and in the absence of authorisation to extend the period by the administration, th…

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