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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
Section 9: Expertise

Article 161-2

…le 161 exceeds one year, the investigating judge may request that a progress report be filed beforehand, which shall be notified to the parties in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 167…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 163

…in a report. For the purposes of their mission, the experts are authorised to open or re-open seals and to make new seals after, if necessary, repackaging the objects they were instructed to examine;…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 167-2

…te may ask the expert to submit a provisional report before his final report. The public prosecutor and the parties then have a period set by the examining magistrate, which may not be less than fifte…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 167-1

…67, where applicable in the presence of the expert or experts. In criminal cases, this presence is mandatory if the civil party's lawyer so requests. The civil party then has a period of fifteen days…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 164

Experts may receive, by way of information and for the sole purpose of carrying out their mission, statements from any person other than the person under investigation, the assisted witness or the civ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 169-1

The provisions of articles 168 and 169 are applicable to persons called upon either to make findings or to assess the nature of the circumstances of a death, in accordance with articles 60 and 74.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
9°: Overseas departments

Article 1043 B

…te, from 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2025, the following are exempt from registration duty or land registration tax when they are carried out for the benefit of irregular owners of immovable prop…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
9°: Overseas departments

Article 1043 A

…n this code are reduced by half. The same reduction shall apply to the rates of registration duties and land registration tax, except where these duties and tax are levied at the rate provided for in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article D40

…for expert reports, for the modification of an expert's mission or for the addition of a co-expert and observations concerning expert reports provided for in articles 156, 161-1, 161-2,167 and 167-2…

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