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Showing 2701–2710 of 25879 articles for “Art. CE 7-5-1986 n° 39426”
When instructing criminal investigation officers to carry out a preliminary investigation, the public prosecutor sets the time limit within which this investigation must be carried out. He may extend…
The judicial police officer conducting a preliminary investigation into a crime or misdemeanour notifies the public prosecutor as soon as a person against whom there is evidence giving rise to a presu…
If it is necessary to carry out technical or scientific findings or examinations, the public prosecutor or, with the latter's authorisation, the officer or agent of the judicial police or, under their…
…it is essential for the purposes of the investigation to carry out a full search of a person in police custody, this must be decided by a judicial police officer and carried out in an enclosed area by…
Article 61-3 is applicable to the preliminary investigation.
…tion provided for in articles 78-3 and 78-3-1 shall, where applicable, be deducted from that of police custody.
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If the needs of the investigation into a crime or offence punishable by at least three years' imprisonment so require, the public prosecutor may issue a search warrant for any person against whom ther…
…territory must agree to submit to an identity check carried out under the conditions and by the police authorities referred to in the following articles.
No interception may take place on the line of a member of parliament or senator without the president of the assembly to which he or she belongs being informed by the investigating judge. No intercept…
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