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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-136

…the registrar has entered a notice of cessation of business in the register pursuant to article R. 123-125, it shall automatically remove from the register any person who has not remedied the situati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-130

When the registrar who carried out the main registration of a legal entity that may be subject to dissolution notes, after a period of two years following the entry in the register of the total cessat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-132

The registrar who deregisters a registration shall require without delay: 1° If it concerns a principal registration, the deregistration of the corresponding secondary registrations, except in the cas…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article R15-13

…the report by the magistrate in charge, the judicial police officer may call witnesses whose names and addresses must have been given to the secretariat of the commission at least five days before th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules

Article R1132-13

The genetic counsellor helps each person who consults him or her with the same conscience and without discrimination, whatever feelings he or she may have towards that person, and without seeking to e…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Appeals to the Paris Court of Appeal against decisions of the Competition Authority.

Article R464-13

Within five days of the filing of the declaration, and failing which the declaration shall automatically lapse, the applicant shall send a copy of the declaration, by registered letter with acknowledg…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R3115-13

The manager of a point of entry shall ensure that any information relating to a health event meeting one of the criteria mentioned in Article R. 3115-68 is sent immediately to the Director General of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 15: Work involving the risk of drowning.

Article R4534-136

…l shall be provided; 3° Where appropriate, at least one boat, manned by seamen who know how to swim and dive, shall be permanently placed near the most dangerous workstations. This boat is equipped wi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 14: Work involving the risk of splashing.

Article R4534-135

Safety goggles must be worn when working on hard materials likely to produce splinters.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 14: Work involving the risk of splashing.

Article R4534-134

Measures are taken to prevent workers being injured by splashes of concrete, mortar or cement applied by mechanical or pneumatic means.

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