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Title II: Provisions specific to the Department of Mayotte

Article 878 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of this code to the Department of Mayotte, the words: “cour d’appel” and the words: “chambre des appels correctionnels” are replaced by the words: “chambre d’appel de Mamoudzou”. References to provisions not applicable in the Department are replaced by references to locally applicable provisions having the same purpose.

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Article 879-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of articles 16 to 19, Mayotte police officers placed at the disposal of the State are assimilated, in accordance with the provisions and under the conditions laid down by these articles, to permanent civil servants in the command and management corps of the national police force. For the application of articles 20 and 21, Mayotte police officers placed at the disposal of the State are treated in…

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Article 880 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Where the movement of a lawyer or a person approved pursuant to article 879 appears materially impossible, the powers vested in the lawyer by the articles 63-4 to 63-4-3 may be exercised by a person chosen by the person in police custody, who is not implicated for the same acts or for related acts and who has not been the subject of any conviction, incapacity or disqualification mentioned in bulletin…

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Article 883-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For all nullity applications sent to the Investigating Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Saint-Denis de La Réunion, the declaration to the clerk’s office may be made by means of a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt when the applicant or his lawyer resides within the jurisdiction of the Mamoudzou judicial court.

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Article 883-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In criminal matters, when the liberty and custody judge receives a request for release from custody from the investigating judge and does not intend to accept this request, he or she shall rule on it after an adversarial hearing organised in accordance with the provisions of the sixth paragraph of Article 145, the lawyer having been summoned in accordance with the provisions of article 114, if the person under investigation…

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