Enacted parts

ARTICLE 414-3
Any person who has participated in the conspiracy defined by article 412-2 is exempted from punishment if, before
prosecution, he has disclosed the existence of the conspiracy to the competent authorities and enabled the identification
of the other participants.
ARTICLE 414-4
The custodial sentence incurred by the perpetrator or the accomplice to the offences set out under articles 411-4,
411-5, 411-7, 411-8 and 412-6 is reduced by half if, having informed the judicial or administrative authorities, he has
made it possible for the criminal behaviour to be stopped or for human fatalities or permanent injuries resulting from the
offence to be avoided, and, where relevant, the other offenders to be identified.
Where the penalty incurred is criminal imprisonment for life, this penalty is reduced to twenty years' criminal
detention.
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PENAL CODE
ARTICLE 414-5
Natural persons convicted of one of the felonies or misdemeanours referred to under the present title also incur the
following additional penalties:
1° forfeiture of civic, civil and family rights pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-26;
2° prohibition to hold public office or to undertake the social or professional activity in the course of which or on the
occasion of the performance of which the offence was committed, pursuant to the conditions set out under article
131-27;
3° confiscation of the thing which was used or intended for the commission of the offence, or of the thing which is
the product of it, with the exception of articles subject to restitution;
4° area banishment, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-31.
ARTICLE 414-6
(Act no. 98-348 of 11 May 1998 Article 37 Official Journal 12 May 1998; Act no. 2003-119 of 26 November 2003, Article
78)
Any alien convicted of any of the offences referred to under chapters I, II and IV of the present title, and articles
413-1 to 413-4, 413-10 and 413-11 may be banished from French territory either permanently or for a maximum period
of ten years in accordance with the conditions laid down under article 131-10.