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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 187-3

…itten observations justifying the continued detention of the person. The person under investigation and his lawyer may also submit any written observations they consider useful. The first president of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 185

…to appeal to the investigating chamber against any order of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge. This appeal, made by declaration to the court registry, must be lodged within ten…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article D40-3

For the application of Articles 186 and 186-1, and for all transfers of files to the court of appeal, the copy of the information file provided for by Article 81 which must be sent to the public prose…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Information to the judicial authorities by the Banque de France.

Article R131-39

…tify the Public Prosecutor's Office that last referred the matter to it, returning the notification and providing all relevant information, unless the effective date of the second prohibition immediat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Information to the judicial authorities by the Banque de France.

Article R131-41

…rticle R. 131-40 must specify : 1° Where it concerns a natural person, his surname, forenames, date and place of birth and, where applicable, the surname used ; 2° If it concerns a legal entity, its n…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Information to the judicial authorities by the Banque de France.

Article R131-38

The Banque de France may inform the Public Prosecutor and, at his request, provide him with information relating to cheque issues that have been reported to it as constituting a breach of a prohibitio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Information to the judicial authorities by the Banque de France.

Article R131-40

The Banque de France will provide any magistrate or judicial police officer acting on the instructions of the public prosecutor or on a court order with a statement of payment incidents recorded in th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-28

…isions referred to in Article 103-1 of Decree no. 85-1388 of 27 December 1985 on the reorganisation and judicial liquidation of companies are forwarded by the Banque de France to each banker who has r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-26

…p pursuant to article L. 131-84 must include all the information provided for in 1°, 2°, 4°, 5°, 6° and 8° of article R. 131-12, as well as the registration number of the incident with the drawee. Thi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-29

In the event of suspension of the effects of a cheque-writing ban pursuant to Article L. 643-12 of the French Commercial Code, the drawee shall send the Banque de France, no later than the second busi…

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