This requirement has subsequently been reformulated as follows: every newly-arrived prisoner should be properly interviewed and physically examined by a medical doctor as soon as posible after his admission; save for in exceptional circumstances, that interview/examination should be carried out on the day of admission, especially insofar as remand establishments are concerned.

If the revising court establishes a severe violation of the civil procedure provisions referred to in the first and second paragraph of Article 339 on the ground of which a revision may be lodged, except of those stated in the second and third paragraphs of the present Article, it shall by a decree set aside, in whole or in part, the judgments of the court of second instance and of the court of first instance, or only the judgment of the court of second instance, and remand the case for reconsideration to the same or a different panel of the court of first or of second instance, or to some other competent court.