The Law of 14 Frimaire passed on 4 December 1793, during the French Revolution, in which power became centralized and consolidated under the Committee of Public Safety.
It stopped representatives on-mission from taking unaccountable, and sometimes despotic, 'action' without the authority of the committee.
[1] Counterfeiting the Bulletin des Lois was punishable by death.
[1] Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne proposed the law as a means to rigorously centralize power in the National Convention and its Committee of Public Safety.
[1] This was an attempt to bring order to the Reign of Terror by making the representatives on-mission directly accountable to the Committee of Public Safety.