has been drawn up. ART 266: Ten days before the hearings start, the president of the court of Assizes shall randomly draw the names of the incumbent assessors needed to serve during the hearing. Subject to the same conditions, the president of the court of assizes, the presidents of the courts of first instance or justices of the peace with extended jurisdiction in the other areas, regardless of whether they have cases to hear, shall randomly select, from the list of assessors for the cercle in which hearings have to be held, the names of alternate assessors needed to serve during the hearing. ART.267- This random selection shall take place at the beginning of the criminal proceeding in an appellate court or court of first instance, as the case may be, which comes before the ten day period stated herein above, without the need to involve therein the Public Prosecutor, the accused persons, parties claiming damages, parties liable under civil law or their legal counsels. To this end, the judge tasked with the random selection shall successively drop, in a ballot box, after reading them loudly and clearly, the names of the assessors of the respective areas written on the relevant number of ballot papers. Excluding the exceptions stated in article 269, the names of assessors who served during the previous session shall not be put in the ballot box. When this operation is over, the judge shall take out each ballot paper from the ballot box one after the other and read the name written there upon. ART 268: No lesser than seven days before the start of sittings, each of the assessors selected randomly shall be notified and given a copy of the reports acknowledging that he/she is part of the Court of Assizes. This notification shall be sent by the Public Prosecutor of the court of the place where the random selection process took place. It shall contain a summons calling on them to be present, on the day, venue and time, where the first case tabled for their examination will take place. Failing this personal notification, the assessors shall be notified at t heir residence or at the residence of the mayor or the head of the administrative unit who will have to inform the relevant assessor. ART 269: Excluding instances where there are additional sittings, assessors who comply with the requirements provided in the previous article may be selected more than once in the course of one year to sit in the Court of Assizes. In case there are additional sittings, they may be selected more than twice in the course of the same year. ART 270: The roll of each sitting shall be fixed by the first president of the court of appeal as proposed by the public prosecution office. The first president may chair the court of assize every time he/she deems it appropriate. ART 271: The referral order shall be made known to the accused and he/she shall be given a copy pursuant to the procedures provided for summons and notices. ART 272: An accused may appeal against the referral order only after the judgement. Grounds for appealing against procedural documents and against a referr al order may be raised in the appeal against the judgement. ART 273: The attorney general may appeal against procedural documents and against a referral order after the judgement, same as accused persons. ART 274: Within twenty-four hours after notification of the referral order, an accused, if he/she is detained, 47