The provisions of this Code shall apply to the prosecution, investigation and trial of offences committed by legal persons, subject to the provisions of this Title.
Without prejudice to the rules of jurisdiction applicable when a natural person is also suspected or prosecuted, the following shall have jurisdiction: 1° The public prosecutor and the courts of the place where the offence was committed; 2° The public prosecutor and the courts of the place where the legal person has its registered office. These provisions are not exclusive of the possible application of the special rules of jurisdiction…
The public prosecution is brought against the legal entity in the person of its legal representative at the time of the prosecution. The latter represents the legal entity in all acts of the proceedings. However, where proceedings for the same or related acts are brought against the legal representative, the latter may apply to the president of the judicial court for the appointment of a legal representative to represent the…
The representative of the legal entity being prosecuted may not, in that capacity, be subject to any measure of constraint other than that applicable to the witness.
The investigating judge may place the legal entity under judicial supervision under the conditions set out in articles 139 and 140 by subjecting it to one or more of the following obligations:
The special provisions applicable to the service of documents on legal persons are set out in Title IV of Book II.
This Title shall apply to proceedings concerning the following offences: 1° Crimes of murder or assassination provided for in articles 221-1 to 221-4 of the Penal Code, when committed on a minor or when committed in a state of legal recidivism; 2° Crimes of torture or acts of barbarism provided for in articles 222-1 to 222-6 of the same code and crimes of violence against a minor of fifteen years…
Persons convicted of one of the offences mentioned in the article 706-47 may be subject to a treatment order imposed either at the time of their conviction, as part of a socio-judicial follow-up, in accordance with article 131-36-4 of the Criminal Code, or subsequent to this, as part of this monitoring, conditional release, judicial supervision or security supervision, in accordance with the articles 706-53-19, 723-30, 723-37, 731-1, 763-3 et 763-8…
The judicial police officer, acting in the course of an investigation or on the basis of a letter rogatory, may proceed against any person against whom there is serious or corroborating evidence of having committed rape, sexual assault or sexual molestation as provided for in the articles 222-23 to 222-26 and 227-25 to 227-27 of the Penal Code, to a medical examination and blood test to determine whether that person…
I.-Notwithstanding I of Article 11-2, the Public Prosecutor shall inform the administration in writing of a conviction, even if not final, for one or more of the offences mentioned in II of this article, handed down against a person whose professional or social activity involving habitual contact with minors has been established in the course of the investigation or enquiry and the exercise of which is controlled, directly or indirectly,…
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