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Article R249-40 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the imprisoned person is both remanded in custody and serving a sentence, only the liberty and custody judge has jurisdiction to hear applications made under article 803-8. However, if the liberty and custody judge, after noting that the conditions of detention are contrary to the applicant’s dignity, decides to end the pre-trial detention pursuant to 2° of II of article 803-8, he shall immediately inform the sentence enforcement judge…

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Article R249-41 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the person remanded in custody is the subject of several detention warrants issued by liberty and custody judges from different judicial courts, only the judge from the court whose seat is closest to the establishment where the person is imprisoned shall have jurisdiction. If the person is detained for acts covered by article 706-16, the Paris liberty and custody judge has sole jurisdiction. The liberty and custody judge shall…

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Article R250-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For their application in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: a) (Repealed); b) (Repealed); c) (Repealed); d) (Repealed); e) (Repealed); f) (Repealed); g) (Repealed); h) The words: “préfet de département” are replaced by the words: “représentant de l’État dans la collectivité”; i) The words: “caisse nationale d’assurance maladie” and the words: “caisse nationale des allocations familiales” are replaced by the words: “caisse de prévoyance sociale”; j) The words: “l’administration centrale de la direction générale des…

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Article R251 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I. – With the exception of articles R. 15-29 to R. 15-33-23, R. 15-33-43 and R. 15-33-59, R. 48-1, the I of article R. 49-8-3, articles R. 49-8-5 to R. 49-19, R. 53-51 to R. 53-56, R. 63, R. 64, R. 93-3 and R. 95, this Code (Decrees in the Council of State) is applicable in New Caledonia in the version resulting from Decree no. 2023-747 of 9 August 2023…

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Article R252 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I. – For the application of this Code in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the terms listed below are replaced as follows: 1° “département” by “collectivité d’outre-mer” or “Nouvelle-Calédonie”; 2° “préfet” and “sous-préfet” by “représentant de l’Etat”; 3° “Banque de France” by “Institut d’émission d’outre-mer” ; 4° “tribunal judiciaire” by “tribunal de première instance” or, where applicable, by the terms “section détachée du tribunal de…

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Article R256 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of articles R. 15-1 and R. 15-5, a paragraph worded as follows completes these articles: “When the person concerned is in office on an island other than that on which the court of appeal sits, this period runs from the first air or sea link. “

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