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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Investigations

Article 814-1

For the application of article 78-2-1 in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, references to provisions of the Labour Code are replaced by references to provisions having…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Investigating courts

Article 816

The obligation for the civil party to declare an address to the investigating judge provided for by Article 89 means, for the overseas territories and New Caledonia, an address located in the territor…

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

Article 837

For the application of Article 398-1 in French Polynesia, New Caledonia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands: 1° The 2° is worded as follows: "2° The offences provided for by the locally applicable provi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter XI: Special procedures

Article 866-2

In 5° of Article 706-167, the reference: "to the second and third paragraphs of Article 414 of the Customs Code" is replaced, in New Caledonia, by the reference: "to the second and third paragraphs of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 879

…by this code in lawyers and parties' counsel may be exercised by persons approved by the President of the Mamoudzou Chamber of Appeal. Such persons are exempt from the requirement of a power of attor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 801-1

…he need for a paper medium. Where these documents are drawn up in digital format and the provisions of this Code require them to be signed, they shall be signed, irrespective of the number of pages an…

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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 803

…ity requirements, to prevent a handcuffed or shackled person from being photographed or the subject of an audiovisual recording.

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

Article 842

For the application of article 416 in the territory of French Polynesia and in New Caledonia, where it appears materially impossible for a lawyer to travel, the accused may choose as counsel a person…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter XII: Enforcement procedures

Article 873

…nently subject to a ban on residence in the district or administrative subdivision where the victim of the crime or their direct heirs live. "

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