The information contained in the file shall be directly accessible, via a secure telecommunications system:
1° To the judicial authorities;
2° To officers of the judicial police, in the context of proceedings concerning a crime of wilful bodily harm, kidnapping or unlawful confinement, or an offence referred to in Article 706-47 and for carrying out the procedures provided for in Articles 706-53-5 et 706-53-8 ;
3° To prefects and State administrations, the list of which is determined by the decree provided for in Article 706-53-12, for administrative decisions on recruitment, assignment, authorisation, approval or accreditation concerning activities or professions involving contact with minors as well as for monitoring the exercise of these activities or professions ;
4° To registry officers specially authorised by the heads of prisons, on the basis of the identity of the person incarcerated, nominative data concerning them or the file number, to check that they have been the subject of the information referred to in Article 706-53-6 and to record the dates of committal and release as well as the home address declared by the released person.
The authorities and persons mentioned in 1° and 2° of this article may search the file using several criteria set by the decree provided for in article 706-53-12, and in particular using one or more of the following criteria: identity of the person, successive addresses, nature of the offences.
The persons mentioned in 3° of this article may only consult the file using the identity of the person concerned by the administrative decision.
Officers of the judicial police may also, on the instructions of the public prosecutor or investigating judge or with the authorisation of that magistrate, consult the file as part of an investigation in flagrante delicto or a preliminary investigation or in execution of a rogatory commission, even if these proceedings do not concern one of the offences mentioned in 2° of this article.
Mayors, presidents of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation, presidents of departmental councils and presidents of regional councils shall also be recipients, via the prefects, of the information contained in the file, for the administrative decisions mentioned in 3° concerning activities or professions involving contact with minors as well as for monitoring the exercise of these activities or professions.