The following shall not be considered as giving rise to an initial assignment within the meaning of the penultimate paragraph of article 16, the stages of the curriculum during which the gendarmerie officers referred to in 2° of the same article benefit, for the purposes and as part of their initial and additional training, from the status of judicial police officer. In this case, an authorisation is issued for the entire duration of the course by the public prosecutor at the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction the training centre is located and ends at the end of the course.
By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, students admitted to the Gendarmerie Officer Training School under Decree no. 2008-946 of 12 September 2008 on the special status of the Gendarmerie officer corps who have judicial police officer authorisation retain the benefit of this authorisation during their initial and additional training and at the end of their schooling.