submissions of the Attorney General, issue detention or arrest warrants. ART 200: The order to forward the procedural documents to the Attorney General shall be notified by the State Counsel or the Justice of the Peace with extended jurisdiction to the person charged, who will in the process be called upon to send to the Indictment Chamber the written submissions he/she deems necessary. These submissions must be filed within thirty days of the date of notification. ART 201: The parties and their counsel shall be permitted, until the day of the hearing, to produce written submissions that they forward to the Public Prosecutor and the other parties. These submissions shall be filed with the Registry of the Indictment Chamber and be signed by the Registrar together with a specification of the date and time of filing. ART 202: The proceedings shall be conducted and the judgement delivered in camera. After the Adviser’s report, the Attorney General and the counsels of the parties who made the request shall make summary observations. When the proceedings are over, the Indictment Chamber shall deliberate without the presence of the Attorney General, the parties, their counsels and the court registrar. ART.203: The Indictment Chamber may in any case, at the request of the Attorney General, one of the parties or even of its own motion, orders any further criminal investigation it deems appropriate. It may order the appearance of the parties in person and the presentation of exhibits. It may also, in all cases, after hearing the Public Prosecutor, order, of its own motion, the release from detention of a person charged. It may, either of its own motion or pursuant to the submissions of the Attorney General, order, with respect to the person charged or of defendants referred to it, an investigation into all counts of felonies, misdemeanours, or simple offences, whether principal or incidental, which result from the case file and are not dealt with in the investigating judge’s order, or which have been withdrawn by an order including partial dismissal, separation or referral before the misdemeanour court or the simple offences court. It may decide without ordering for a new criminal investigation if the charges referred to in the preceding paragraph have been included in the indictments brought by the investigating jud ge. ART 204: The Indictment Chamber may also order the placing under judicial examination of persons who have not been referred to it, pursuant to the conditions provided in Article 205, unless they have been granted a final dismissal order. This decision may not be the subject of an appeal on points of law. ART 205: Additional investigative measures shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions governing the preliminary investigation, either by a member of the Indictment Chamber or by an investigating judge it delegates for this purpose. The designated magistrate may delegate his/her powers as he/she deems necessary. The Attorney General may at any time request that the case file should be sent, provided he/she returns the documents within twenty-four hours. ART 206: The indictment chamber shall examine the lawfulness of proceedings submitted to it. If it discovers a ground of nullity, it shall declare the nullity of the instrument so vitiated and, where necessary, of all or part of the subsequent proceedings. After an annulment, it may either invoke or proceed pursuant to the conditions set out in Articles 203 and 204, or return the case file to the same investigating judge or to another investigating judge in 38

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