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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The Public Prosecutor's Office

Article R15-33-31

The natural person or legal entity, depending on whether it wishes to be authorised in the jurisdiction of the judicial court or in that of the court of appeal, shall apply to the public prosecutor or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Judicial police files

Article R40-31-1

On receipt of a request for rectification or deletion, the territorially competent public prosecutor or the magistrate referred to in Article 230-9 shall inform the interested party of his decision by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I bis: Priority question on constitutionality

Article R*49-31

When the priority question of constitutionality is raised in the course of an appeal, the separate pleading provided for in article 23-5 of Order no. 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 shall bear the words: "…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-31

If the request is granted, the public prosecutor may, within ten days, contest this decision before the president of the investigating chamber. This challenge suspends the execution of the decision.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Implementation of placement under mobile electronic surveillance

Article R61-31-1

The sentence enforcement judge may, by decision taken in accordance with the provisions of Article 712-8, suspend the execution of mobile electronic surveillance placement for medical reasons, in part…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Drawing up and updating the national list of medical accident experts.

Article R1142-31-1

I.- Candidates who have never carried out expert appraisals or whose expert appraisals submitted when applying for inclusion on the list referred to inarticle L. 1142-11 do not allow them to be consid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4-1: Remuneration and compensation of members and experts

Article R1313-31-1

The members of the Monitoring Committee, the members of the specialist expert committees, the members of the Scientific Advisory Board from the College of Qualified Scientists, the members of the Ethi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration of the administrator, the administrator responsible for the implementation of the plan, the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator

Article R663-31-1

It shall be awarded to the mandataire judiciaire or the liquidateur judiciaire, in respect of actions brought by them pursuant to the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 653-7 and resultin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for admission to the profession of commercial court clerk

Article R742-31-1

The application for authorisation to extend the activity provided for in article L. 741-1 is submitted to the Minister of Justice, by tele-procedure on the Ministry of Justice website, no later than t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Electronic communication and examination of appeals

Article R2333-120-31

I. - In the event of a challenge to the decision made following the mandatory prior administrative appeal, the request must be accompanied by:1° A copy of the payment notice for the post-parking charg…

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