Release may be requested at any time from the Investigating Chamber in accordance with the forms set out in articles 148-6 and 148-7.
The claimant’s lawyer is summoned by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt at least forty-eight hours before the date of the hearing. After hearing the Public Prosecutor and the person claimed or their lawyer, the Examining Magistrates’ Chamber shall rule as soon as possible and at the latest within twenty days of receiving the request, in a judgment given under the conditions provided for in Article 199. If the request for release was made by the person claimed within forty-eight hours of being placed in extradition custody, the time limit for the Investigating Chamber to rule is reduced to fifteen days.
The Investigating Chamber may also, when it orders the release of the person claimed and as a security measure, require the person concerned to submit to one or more of the obligations listed in articles 138 and 142-5.
Prior to his release, the person claimed must inform the investigating chamber or the head of the prison of his address. They are informed that they must notify the Investigating Chamber of any change in their declared address, either by means of a new declaration or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. He/she is also advised that any notification or service made to the last declared address will be deemed to have been made to his/her person.
Mention of this notice, as well as of the declaration of address, shall be made either in the minutes or in the document that is sent without delay, in original or copy, by the head of the prison to the investigating chamber.