Enacted parts

ARTICLE 131-27
Where it is incurred as an additional penalty for a felony or a misdemeanour, the prohibition to exercise a public
office or a professional or social activity is either permanent or temporary. In the latter case, the prohibition may not
exceed a term of five years.
This prohibition may not be enforced against the discharge of an electoral mandate or union stewardship. Nor is it
applicable for a press misdemeanour.
ARTICLE 131-28
The prohibition to exercise a professional or social activity may affect either the professional or social activity in the
exercise of which, or on the occasion of which, the offence was committed, or any other professional or social activity
defined by the law punishing the offence.
ARTICLE 131-29
Where the prohibition to exercise all or part of the rights enumerated under article 131-26 or the prohibition to
exercise a public office or a social or professional activity are imposed together with an immediate custodial sentence,
these sanctions are enforceable from the beginning of this sentence and they continue for the length of time determined
by the decision, from the day when the custodial sentence ends.
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PENAL CODE
ARTICLE 131-30
(Act no. 93-1027 of 24 August 1993 Article 33 Official Journal of 29 August 1993)
( Act no. 97-396 of 24 April Article 16 Official Journal of 25 April 1997)
(Act no. 98-349 of 11 May 1998 Article 37 Official Journal of 12 May 1998) 
(Act no. 2003-1119 of 26 November 2003 Article 78 I Official Journal of 27 November 2003)
Where it is provided for by Statute, banishment from French territory may be ordered, either permanently or for a
maximum period of ten years, against any alien convicted of a felony or a misdemeanour.
Banishment from French territory automatically involves the removal of the convicted person to the frontier, at the
end of his prison sentence, where applicable. 
Where banishment from French territory is imposed together with an immediate custodial sentence, its enforcement
is suspended during the execution of the sentence. It resumes from the day when the custodial sentence has ended, for
the length of time determined by the convicting judgment.
Banishment from French territory imposed at the same time as a custodial sentence does not prevent the sentence
being made subject to measures of semi-liberty, external placement, placement under electronic surveillance or
permission to leave prison, with a view to preparing a request for the ban to be lifted.