He/she may not delegate the powers herein above to a judicial police official. He/she may, in an emergency, order that the suspected documents should be brought to the registry. ART 557: In any investigation for forgery, the investigating judge shall, a s soon as the alleged document is presented to him/her or is placed in the custody of judicial authorities, order that it should be submitted at the registry; it shall be signed by the investigating judge and the registrar who prepares a document describing the state of the document when it was submitted. However before submission at the registry, the investigating judge may order that the document should be duplicated through photography or any other means. ART 558: The investigating judge may have the relevant person provide similar documents and seize such documents. These documents shall be signed by this judge and the registrar, who will prepare a descriptive document of these documents as stated in the previous document. ART 559: Any public depositary of documents allegedly false, or used to prepare forgeries, shall, as ordered by the examining magistrate, have to hand them over to him/her, to forward them to him/her and provide, where applicable, the documents for comparison in his/her keeping. If the documents so forwarded by a public officer or seized from him/her are authentic, he/she may ask to be left with a copy thereof, certified as true by the registrar , and duplicated through photography or any other means. The said copy or duplicate shall be kept among the records of the office until the original document has been returned. ART 560: When witnesses testify about a document involved in the trial, they shall initial and sign it, and if they cannot sign, the report will mention this fact. ART 561: If during the hearing of a court of first instance or an appellate court, a document in the proceeding, or a document presented is allegedly false, the court shall decide, after recording the observations of the public prosecutor and the parties, whether it is necessary to stay proceedings until the competent court rules on the forgery. ART 562: The document shall be dismissed from the trial if the party declares that it does not want to use or if, within a period of eight days, it makes no statement, and if it is disregarded during the investigation and at the judgement. ART 563: If the party who allegedly falsified the document argues that the person who presented it is the perpetrator of or an accomplice to the forgery, or if the proceedin g shows that the perpetrator of or an accomplice to the forgery is alive, and the prosecution of the felony is barred by prescription, the charge shall be prosecuted. If the trial is launched under civil law, judgement shall be suspended until a ruling has been passed on the forgery. In the event of felonies, misdemeanours or simple offences, the court of first instance or the appellate court shall have to decide beforehand, and after hearing the representative of the public prosecutor, whether or not it is necessary to stay proceedings. ART 564: A defendant or an accused person may have to produce and to file pleadings; in the event of refusal or silence, the report will mention this fact and articles 84 and 85 of the Mali Penal Code may be applied. ART 565: If while examining the trial, even civil, an appellate court or a court of first instance discovers clues concerning forgery and on the person who committed it, the representative of the public prosecutor or the president will forward the documents to the public prosecutor of the court, either of the place where 82