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Article 82-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When the examining magistrate challenges the merits of a request by the parties to establish that the public prosecution is time-barred, he or she must make a reasoned order within one month of receiving the request. The provisions of the penultimate and last paragraphs of Article 81 shall apply.

On pain of inadmissibility, a person claiming that the public prosecution was time-barred at the time of his indictment or his first hearing as an assisted witness must make his application within six months of that act.

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Article 82-3

Lorsque le juge d’instruction conteste le bien-fondé d’une demande des parties tendant à constater la prescription de l’action publique, il doit rendre une ordonnance motivée dans le délai d’un mois à compter de la réception de la demande. Les dispositions des avant-dernier et derniers alinéas de l’article 81 sont applicables.

A peine d’irrecevabilité, la personne soutenant que la prescription de l’action publique était acquise au moment de sa mise en examen ou de sa première audition comme témoin assisté doit formuler sa demande dans les six mois suivant cet acte.

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