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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Article R53-17

The magistrate mentioned in Article R. 53-16 and, at his request, the members of the committee provided for in the same article shall have permanent access to the file and to the place where it is loc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: List of ad hoc administrators

Article R53

A list of ad hoc administrators is drawn up every four years within the jurisdiction of each court of appeal. It may be updated annually as necessary. The list of ad hoc administrators is made availab…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Informing the person entered in the file

Article R53-8-12

In the case of placement under judicial supervision as provided for in 5° of Article 706-53-2, informing the person and providing the document provided for in Article R. 53-8-9 are made by the investi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R53-8-23

Judicial authorities, as well as specially empowered judicial police officers, seized in the context of proceedings referred to in 2° of Article 706-53-7 or notified in accordance with Article R. 53-8…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 4: Rights of persons detained in socio-medico-judicial security centres

Article R53-8-70

…tronic surveillance for one or more days in order to maintain family ties or to prepare for the end of the detention period.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Obligations incumbent on the person entered in the file

Article R53-8-15

To satisfy the obligation of presentation referred to in the fifth paragraph of Article 706-53-5, the supporting document referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 53-8-13 is delivered in perso…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Obligations incumbent on the person entered in the file

Article R53-8-16

Failing receipt of the letter referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 53-8-14 within eight days of the dates defined in Article R. 53-8-14, the department managing the file shall send the Min…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Search of the file and direct information to the Ministry of the Interior

Article R53-8-24

I.-Pursuant to the provisions of 3° of Article 706-53-7, may directly query the file, via a secure telecommunications system, based solely on the identity of a person who has applied for recruitment,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Security surveillance

Article R53-8-45

The opinion of the multi-disciplinary committee on security measures proposing placement under security surveillance or renewal of this measure is given in the light of the information contained in th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 5: Fresnes centre

Article R53-8-77

Persons held in the centre come under the jurisdiction of one of the vice-presidents in charge of enforcing sentences of the Paris judicial court, appointed by the first president of the Paris court o…

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