Any order made on the basis of articles 706-169 or 706-170 by which an examining magistrate rules that he is no longer competent or the Paris examining magistrate rules that he is competent may, to the exclusion of all other means of appeal, be referred within five days of notification, at the request of the Public Prosecutor or the parties, to the Criminal Division of the Cour de Cassation, which shall designate, within eight days of receipt of the file, the investigating judge responsible for continuing the investigation. The Public Prosecutor may also refer the matter directly to the Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation if the investigating judge has not made an order within the one-month period provided for in the first paragraph of Article 706-169.
The Criminal Division that finds that the investigating judge of the Paris Judicial Court does not have jurisdiction may nevertheless, in the interests of the proper administration of justice, decide that the investigation will be continued in that court.
The investigating judge and the public prosecutor shall be notified of the judgment of the Criminal Division; it shall be served on the parties.
This Article shall apply to a judgment given on the basis of the last paragraph of Articles 706-169 and 706-170 in which an Examining Chamber rules on its relinquishment of jurisdiction or competence.