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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Bailiffs

Article 866

With the exception of deeds in criminal matters and deeds from lawyer to lawyer, bailiffs are required to draw up their deeds and minutes in two originals; one, exempt from all tax formalities, is giv…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c) Biology and Toxicology

Article R118

Maximum fees for toxicological and biological analyses are set by reference to the conventional fee rates set on the basis of article L. 162-14-1 of the Social Security Code, by applying to the values…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
d) Radiology

Article R120

Each qualified medical expert or radiologist, duly requested or commissioned, is allocated remuneration or fees calculated with reference to the rates set by the common classification of medical acts.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
e) Mechanical expertise

Article R120-1

Each expert is awarded, for a complete mechanical expert appraisal of one or more motor vehicles, ordered by a court sitting in Paris or in the departments of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis or Val-…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-6-3

The request for authorisation specifies the nature of the duties entrusted to the reservist and the service or unit in which he or she will be called upon to perform them on his or her first posting.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-5

The Public Prosecutor grants or refuses, by order, authorisation to effectively exercise the attributions attached to the status of judicial police officer.When considering refusing authorisation, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-6-1

When serving in the national police's operational reserve, retired national police officers who were judicial police officers during their active service may be authorised, under the terms and conditi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-6

The Public Prosecutor of the place where the judicial police officer usually carries out his duties will order the withdrawal or, for a period not exceeding two years, the suspension of the authorisat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-4

When the judicial police officer is called upon to habitually perform his duties as a judicial police officer throughout the territory of the Republic, the request for authorisation is addressed to th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
B: Authorisation of national police judicial police officers

Article R15-6-5

The Public Prosecutor of the place where the judicial police officer usually carries out his duties will order the withdrawal or, for a period not exceeding two years, the suspension of the authorisat…

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