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Showing 461470 of 1257 articles for Art. Bull. crim. n° 306

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 202

It may, of its own motion or at the request of the Public Prosecutor, order that he or she be informed in respect of the persons under investigation or defendants referred to it on all the counts of c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-20

If the departmental criminal court considers, during or after the hearings, that the facts before it constitute a crime punishable by thirty years' imprisonment or life imprisonment, it refers the cas…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-11

The following are null and void1° All general clauses forfeiting the right of the insured to claim in the event of a breach of laws or regulations, unless such breach constitutes a crime or an intenti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-9

For the purposes of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, opened for signature in New York on 12 January 1998, may be prosecuted and tried under the conditions laid d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event of recognition of impairment of judgement

Article 706-136-1

When a person convicted in the circumstances mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Penal Code has not been sentenced to socio-judicial supervision, the sentence enforcement judge m…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L2326-2

Opening or running one of the establishments mentioned in article L. 2322-1 without authorisation or failing to comply with the conditions of the authorisation is punishable by a fine of 4,500 euros.…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VII: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN THE FRENCH AUSTRALIAN AND ANTARCTIC TERRITORIES

Article L157-1

…all apply in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories in the wording resulting from ordonnance n°2020-1733 du 16 décembre 2020, unless otherwise stated or mentioned as applying ipso jure in the t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1039 A

…f article 1020, transfers made to a professional economic development committee governed by the loi n° 78-654 du 22 juin 1978, of assets of any kind belonging to an organisation with a similar purpose…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article A5

The syllabus for the examination provided for in the preceding article is as follows:Criminal procedurePublic prosecution and civil action: general concepts.The authorities invested by law with judici…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article A16

The syllabus for the examination provided for in the preceding article is as follows: Criminal procedure L'action publique et l'action civile: notions générales. The authorities vested by law with jud…

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