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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-7

When 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 ar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-6

The deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1° bis, 1° ter, 1° quater and 2° of Article 21 are authorised to record the identity of offenders in order to draw up official reports concerning contr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Gifts and bequests

Article R2242-6

From the time of delivery or sending into possession, the revenue or expenditure transactions affecting the assets bequeathed to a commune or communal public establishment are carried out under the co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Regional fund for apprenticeship and continuing vocational training

Article R4332-7

For the determination of the expenditure incurred by the State in 1998 in respect of training initiatives for young people under the age of twenty-six pursuant to II b of Article 82 of Law no. 83-8 of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The nature, amount and exercise of rights

Article 758-6

Gifts received from the deceased by the surviving spouse are deducted from the latter's rights in the succession. Where the gifts thus received are less than the rights defined in articles 757 and 757…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Transfer.

Article 728-62

A person transferred to French territory for the enforcement of a custodial sentence or detention order imposed by a court of a Member State may not be sought, prosecuted, sentenced or detained for an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-6

Rulings concerning work release, semi-liberty, splitting and suspension of sentences, home detention under electronic surveillance and conditional release are made, after consulting the representative…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIc: Enforcement of sentences and probation decisions in application of the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 27 November 2008

Article 764-6

Any conviction or probation decision transmitted pursuant to this Title for the purpose of recognition and monitoring in the territory of the executing State shall be accompanied by a certificate spec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article 698-7

The provisions of Article 698-6 are applicable, for the trial of ordinary crimes committed in the performance of service by military personnel, only if there is a risk of disclosure of a national defe…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 60-7

Customs officers may only immobilise means of transport and goods or keep persons at their disposal for the time strictly necessary to carry out the physical inspection operations, which include check…

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