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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 123

Every warrant shall specify the identity of the person against whom it is issued; it shall be dated and signed by the magistrate who issued it and shall bear his seal. Warrants for bringing, committin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 126

Any person arrested by virtue of a summons, who has been held for more than twenty-four hours without being questioned, is considered to be arbitrarily detained. The Articles 432-4 to 432-6 of the Pen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 125

The examining magistrate shall immediately question the person who is the subject of a summons to appear. A person arrested under a summons to appear shall be questioned under the same conditions. How…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 128

…son about his identity, receives his statements, after warning him that he is free not to make any, and asks him whether he consents to being transferred or whether he prefers to extend the effects of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 127

…more than two hundred kilometres from the seat of the examining magistrate who issued the warrant, and it is not possible to bring him before that magistrate within twenty-four hours, he shall be bro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 129

The examining magistrate hearing the case decides, immediately after receipt of these documents, whether to order the transfer.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Execution time for payment transactions and value dates

Article L133-12

…Article L. 133-1, the provisions of this section apply to payment transactions carried out in euros and to payment transactions involving a single conversion between the euro and the official currency…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-12

…epresentative of a person for whom he had no authority to act is himself obligated under the cheque and, if he has paid, has the same rights as the purported principal would have had. The same applies…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Charges or reductions for the use of a given payment instrument

Article L112-12

…tation with the French Competition Authority, taking into account the need to encourage competition and promote the use of efficient means of payment.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Offences relating to cheques and other non-cash money instruments

Article L163-12

Any person who disseminates or retains information obtained pursuant to article L. 131-86 shall be liable to the penalties provided for in article 226-21 of the French Criminal Code.

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