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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title XVIII: Costs and expenses.

Article 695

…matters (taking of evidence) (recast) ;10° Social investigations ordered pursuant to articles 1072, 1171 and 1221 ;11° The remuneration of the person appointed by the judge to hear the minor, pursuant…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-3

…forcement judge or, if the second paragraph of article 131-9 or the second paragraph of article 131-11 of the Penal Code, the sentence enforcement judge, referred to for this purpose by the public pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-12

…sion became final; 4° The reasons for forwarding the sentencing decision with regard to Article 728-11; 5° The date, place and circumstances in which the offence or offences were committed, as well as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cancer centres.

Article L6162-8

…h the centre, or to those mentioned in 6° who have signed the contracts provided for in articles L. 1110-11 and L. 1112-5 with the centre. If any other incompatibility is applied to these representati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article R228-22-1

…or determining it; 4° The maximum amount of distributable sums within the meaning of Article L. 232-11 likely to be allocated to this buyback, or, where applicable, the maximum amount of the proceeds…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R3354-20

…military premises, without a civilian being implicated, the operations defined in articles R. 3354-11 to R. 3354-16 may be carried out by military biologists and medical experts, appointed by order o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment

Article R6152-706

…plementary pension scheme), subject to the possible application of the provisions of article D. 171-11 of the Social Security Code; 8° The amount of the fixed portion of remuneration and the amount of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Discharge of liabilities.

Article L643-8

…stributable assets is allocated in the following order: 1° Subsidies provided for in Article L. 631-11 that have not yet been paid; 2° Claims guaranteed by the lien provided for in articles L. 3253-2,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : State financial aid

Article L3334-16-2

…ments participating, pursuant to article 43 of law no. 2021-1900 of 30 December 2021 on finance for 2022, in the experiment relating to the recentralisation of the solidarity income mentioned in artic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions relating to the regional sports conference

Article R112-39

…to be implemented, in particular with regard to the objectives mentioned in 1° to 8° of article L. 112-14 and taking into account the national guidelines in terms of sports policy defined within the…

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