The provisions of the second paragraph of Article 559-1 allowing the public prosecutor to extend the time limit for service of a decision to up to three months shall also apply to service issued at the request of the public prosecutor or the civil party.
The public prosecutor and the civil party may specify this three-month period in their initial application. They may also extend the period by up to three months if the bailiff informs them that he has been unable to effect service within the period of forty-five days initially set.
These time limits run from receipt by the bailiff of the request from the public prosecutor or the civil party.