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Article R228-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The tax order may be appealed by the party or the public prosecutor before the investigating chamber, regardless of the court to which the taxing magistrate belongs. The time limit for appeal is ten days from notification. The time limit for lodging an appeal and the lodging of an appeal within the time limit shall suspend execution.

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Article R229 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

An appeal against the tax order may be lodged with the examining magistrate’s chamber by the public prosecutor, at the request of the assigning accounting officer within a period of one month from receipt of the request for payment. In matters of legal aid, the one-month period runs from the transmission that is made by the competent authorising officer to the assigning accounting officer of the tax order. A reasoned…

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Article R230 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The appeals referred to in the preceding articles shall be lodged by declaration to the registry of the taxing magistrate or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent to that registry. The stakeholder shall be informed of the public prosecutor’s appeal by registered letter, sent by the registry. The decision of the investigating chamber shall be sent for enforcement to the registry of the court to which the taxing…

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Article R231 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The convicted party may appeal against the provision of the decision relating to the liquidation of costs. This appeal is brought before the court of appeal in the event that the decision containing the liquidation can be undertaken by this route. In the event that the decision containing the award of costs is not subject to appeal, the appeal shall be brought before the investigating chamber. The appeal shall be…

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Article R233 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The certified or taxed statement or statement of costs of the stakeholder shall be ordered by the heads of the court of appeal or their delegates, unless specific provisions provide for the payment of the costs in particular by the imprest administrator. Where he is competent, the imprest administrator, in the event of disagreement over a certified statement or statement of costs, shall request the public prosecutor to issue requisitions…

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Article R234 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the case of a certified statement or memorandum, the stakeholder within one month of collection of the sum, or the assigning accountant, for the costs referred to in 2° and 3° of Articles R. 224-1 and R. 224-2, within one month of receipt of the request for payment, may submit a claim to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the court whose clerk or designated official carried out the certification,…

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Article R241 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The following are declared to be borne by the State in all cases and without recourse against convicted persons: 1° Costs and expenses incurred in the event of a court decision correcting or interpreting a previous decision; 2° Costs incurred before the commission provided for in Article 16-2.

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Article R242 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

A statement shall be drawn up for each criminal or police case, showing the liquidation of costs other than those borne by the State without recourse to the convicted persons. During the investigation, this statement is drawn up by the investigating clerk as and when the costs are incurred as stated in Article 81, paragraph 2. This liquidation must be inserted either in the order, or in the judgment, ruling…

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Article R244 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The court clerk must submit to the departmental or, where applicable, regional director of public finance, as soon as the conviction has become final, an extract of the order, judgment or ruling, as regards the liquidation and the order to reimburse costs or a copy of the statement of liquidation made enforceable.

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