Chapter V: Criminal provisions.

The following offences are punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of €15,000 1° For the director of an establishment referred to in article L. 3222-1 to maintain the psychiatric care measure of which a person is the subject, whatever the form, when the lifting of the measure is ordered by the representative of the State in the department or, in Paris, the police prefect in application of article…

The director of an establishment referred to in Article L. 3222-1 is liable to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €7,500 if he or she: 1° Admit a person to psychiatric care pursuant to 1° of II of article L. 3212-1 without having obtained the request for admission to care and the medical certificates provided for by the same 1° ; 2° Admitting a person to psychiatric care in…

It is punishable by six months imprisonment and a fine of €7,500 for a doctor in an establishment mentioned in article L. 3222-1 to refuse or omit to draw up, within the prescribed time limits, the medical certificates for which he/she is responsible under articles L. 3211-2-2, L. 3212-7, L. 3213-1 and L. 3213-3.