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IT AMENDS THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, IN RESPECT OF THE NOTIFICATIONS IT INDICATES, AND THE ORGANIC CODE OF COURTS, AS REGARDS THE WEEKLY VISIT OF THE JUDGES TO THE PRISON FACILITIES

Original Language Title: MODIFICA EL CODIGO DE PROCEDIMIENTO PENAL, RESPECTO A LAS NOTIFICACIONES QUE INDICA, Y EL CODIGO ORGANICO DE TRIBUNALES, EN LO RELATIVO A LA VISITA SEMANAL DE LOS JUECES A LOS RECINTOS CARCELARIOS

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AMENDS THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTIFICATIONS IT INDICATES, AND THE ORGANIC CODE OF COURTS, REGARDING THE WEEKLY VISIT OF THE JUDGES TO THE PRISON PRECINCTS Having present that the H. National Congress has |! their approval to the following P r o y c t o d e L e y: " Article 1.-The following amendments shall be made to the Code of Criminal Procedure: 1) Add in Article 66 the following new paragraph: " However, in the case of detainees or prisoners whose proceedings are brought before a court whose seat is outside the place or city where the criminal establishment is located in which the court is located they are held and have no daily service of transfer to the court, the resolution granting unconditional release or interim release without bail, or order to comply with the ruling of the Court of Appeals ruling on the resolution concerning freedom, they will be notified by the daily stadium. The decision refusing freedom, or granting interim freedom on bail or granting an appeal, where appropriate, shall be notified immediately and as soon as possible to the person in charge of the criminal establishment, who shall communicate to the inmate. He may appeal the decision in the act and before the same person, which he shall communicate immediately and in the same way to the court. Granted that it is the appeal, the cars will be raised to the respective Court of Appeals. Likewise, once the security has been lodged, the court will, in the same way, transmit the order of freedom to the person in charge of the establishment for immediate compliance. The Registrar of the Tribunal shall leave testimony in the proceedings of the proceedings which he/she practices pursuant to this paragraph, with mention of the date on which they were made, the individualization of the person who received or provided the information, according to (2) In Article 592, delete the sentence 'and shall make the judges of the places where the suspect is suspected to have been held', by placing the item separately (.) following the word 'apprehend'; and add the following second indent: " The summons or apprehension orders will be issued to both Carabinieri as the Investigations Police and these institutions must transmit them to all their partitions and units. "3) In Article 593, in the heading, delete the phrase" and requisitions "; in the number 3º, delete the words "or requisition"; and in number 4, replace the words "or requisition" with "summons or apprehension". Article 2.-The following amendments are made to the Organic Code of Courts: 1. Substitute Article 567 of the Organic Code of Courts for the following: " Article 567.-On the last working day of each week, any judge of letters exercising jurisdiction in criminal matters, accompanied by his secretary, shall visit the prison or establishments located in the town or city where the court works and where there are detainees or prisoners in their office, in order to investigate whether they suffer undue abuse, if they are subject to the freedom of or if the processing of your process is illegally prolonged. The Court of Appeals, within whose jurisdiction there are courts in criminal law that are exempt from the respective visit because they have detainees or inmates in jails or establishments that are located outside the locality or where they operate, establish a shift or other system among the crime judges required for the visit, to be carried out by such detainees or prisoners, and, on their own initiative, inform the judge who instructs the respective process on the complaints and comments received. Without prejudice to the foregoing, any judge shall, at least once every three months, visit the prison in which he or she has been detained or imprisoned. "2) Add, in Article 570, the following second indent, new:" In the case of the second subparagraph of the Article 567, the courts exempt from the obligation of the respective visit will have to refer to the court that will carry out the visit the state in which the name of each one of the prisoners and detainees is expressed, the crime for which they are processed and the state of the cause, until the day immediately before the one in which the visit takes place. The court which practices the visit will officiate to the one who knows of the cause informing him about the undue delays which it finds, in order to dictate the appropriate measures for the process to continue its course without interruption. " 3) point (.) of the second paragraph of Article 571 by a point followed (.) and add the following text: " In the case of the second indent of Article 567, the court which practices the visit shall officiate the one who is aware of the cause informing him of the (i) the Commission's request to the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament ".". Having complied with the provisions of Article 82 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of Mexico, and because I have had to approve and sanction it, I therefore promulgate and take effect as the Law of Santiago, 13 November 1997.-EDUARDO FREI RUIZ-TAGLE, President of the Republic.-Maria Soledad Alvear Valenzuela, Minister of Justice. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Salutes intently to Ud., José Antonio Gómez Urrutia, Assistant Secretary of Justice. Constitutional Court Draft law amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, in respect of the way in which the notifications of the resolutions it indicates, and the Organic Code of Courts, regarding the weekly visit are to be practiced The Secretary of the Constitutional Court, who subscribes, certifies that the Honorable Senate sent the bill enunciated in the rubric, approved by the National Congress, so that this Court The Court of Justice held that the Court of Justice held that the Court of First Instance held that 1. That the precepts contained in the numbers 1) and 2) of the second article of the project submitted to control are constitutional. 2. That it is not for this Court to rule on the provisions referred to in Article 1, and number 3) of Article 2, of the draft submitted, for dealing with matters that are not their own constitutional organic law. Santiago, October 27, 1997.-Rafael Larraín Cruz, Secretary.