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Sanctioned: June 28, 2000.
Partially promulgated: July 17, 2000.
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation assembled in Congress, etc. sanction with force of Law:
ARTICLE 1 The Oral Tribunals in the Criminal and Correctional Federal that currently operate in the provinces of Catamarca, Current, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Neuquén, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, La Pampa, Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego, Antártida and South Atlantic Islands, which do not have Federal Appeals Chambers in the respective provinces, will become constituted and be designated as a federal chamber with the name of the provincial jurisdiction to which it corresponds. With the same scopes, join the Oral Tribunal in the Federal Criminal of Santa Fe whose jurisdiction will include the Departments of Capital, Las Colonias, Castellanos, San Justo, Garay, San Gerónimo, San Martín, San Cristóbal, San Javier, General Obligado, Nueve de Julio y Vera, of the province of Santa Fe. ARTICLE 2 The operation, jurisdiction and competence of federal chambers established by this Act, in addition to retaining the functions and jurisdiction assigned to them by Law 24.050, shall be governed by the provisions of Articles 3 and 14 to 25, all inclusive, of National Law 4055 under the protection of Articles 3, 5, 49 and by Article 50 of Decree 1285/58 (ratified by Act No. 14.467, Including its amendment).In criminal matters, jurisdiction shall be limited to that attributed in article 16 of Act No. 24.050, with the exception of article 75 of Act No. 24.121. In order to understand the cases set out in article 24 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Federal Appeals Chamber of the respective district shall be competent.
Article 3 The powers of superintendence of federal chambers established by this law shall be governed by the provisions of national law 7099, as soon as the present is not otherwise provided. ARTICLE 4 In the event of recusal, excuse, leave, vacation or other impediment of one or more judges of the federal chambers, they will be composed of the or the conjueces that will be uninstalled from a list of lawyers who meet the conditions to be members of them and that each of them will form for insaculation during the month of December of each calendar year. ARTICLE 5o Representatives of the Public Prosecutor ' s Office presently in the oral courts of Act No. 24,050, in addition to retaining their functions, shall have the intervention and participation that they have by law to act in the federal chambers established by this Act. ARTICLE 6 The Federal Appeals Chambers shall also hear appeals against the final decisions of the agencies and administrative bodies in cases authorized by law. ARTICLE 7 The Federal Appeals Chambers of Article 1 of this Law shall assume their new jurisdiction and competence to the sixty (60) days of publication of the present. This shall also apply to cases pending, but the procedural deadlines shall be fully suspended for all parties, from the time of the transfer of the case to the new court to be heard, until the first order is issued, or the parties institute the procedure under the law. The criminal cases which, pursuant to article 90 of Act No. 24.121, are currently before the Federal Criminal Courts on the grounds of article 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Nation shall be brought before the Federal Chambers head of the respective district, from the ten (10) days of publication of the present.The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not prevent the court which had been competent for the handling of the case until the dictation of this law from providing the procedural acts that may be carried out in a reasonable manner during the intermediate time and any urgent action that would serve the best protection of the rights involved, either on its own motion or at the request of a party.
ARTICLE 8 The judges of the Chamber, who at this time integrate the Oral Tribunals in the Federal Criminal and Correctional matters of each of the provinces referred to in article 1 of this Act, shall also assume the character of judges of the federal chambers that are established by this law from the sixty (60) days of the publication of the present Act and shall know of the cases attributed by Law 24.050, by this Law and by the laws to which the present section 6 refers Article 9 Any legal provision opposing the present is repealed. ARTICLE 10 Contact the Executive.DADA IN THE SESSION OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN GOOD AIRES, TO THE DIASS OF THE MONTH OF JUNE OF THE YEAR DOS MIL.
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PASCUAL RAFAEL. . JOSE GENOUD. . Guillermo Aramburu. . Mario L. Pontaquarto.
NOTE: The bold text was observed.
