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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

Article R53-8-55

The tasks and organisation of the medico-socio-judicial security centres, as well as the conditions under which the detainees' lawyers and the judicial authority have access to information relating to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisational rules.

Article L4132-3

…member of the French National Academy of Medicine, appointed by the Academy, with the right to vote;2° Three representatives of the Ministries of Higher Education, Health and Labour, in an advisory ca…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Prohibitions.

Article L1242-6

…n employee whose employment contract has been suspended as a result of a collective labour dispute ;2° To carry out certain particularly dangerous work included on a list drawn up by regulation, under…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Professional certificate in youth, popular education and sport

Article D212-15

…sessment: 1° For the first, the production of a personal written document followed by an interview; 2° For the second, a work situation.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Examination of a person's genetic characteristics and identification of a person by genetic fingerprints

Article 16-12

…ic police services or organisations referred to in article 157-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure; 2° Persons who have been approved under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. In the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Book V: Insurance distributors

Article L500

For the purposes of this Book, the words "insurance undertaking" refer to the undertakings mentioned in Article L. 310-2 of this Code, mutual insurers or associations governed by Book II of the Mutual…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Miscellaneous obligations

Article 878

…es prescribed for the registration of liens and mortgages and other rights over immovable property; 2° Carrying out the merged formality of land registration and registration referred to in article 64…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: FAMILY GROUPING SCHEME

Article R434-1

…e of the following residence documents:1° A temporary residence permit, valid for at least one year;2° A multi-annual residence permit;3° A residence permit, valid for ten years or indefinitely;4° A r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Night work

Article R3163-1

…6222-26, the granting of a derogation from the ban on night work for young workers are: 1° Hotels; 2° Restaurants; 3° Bakeries; 4° Pastry shops; 5° Entertainment; 6° Horse racing, for all activities…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Tasks and organisation.

Article R2112-3

The medico-social actions mentioned in 2° and 4° of article L. 2112-2 and concerning children under the age of six are intended in particular to ensure, through consultations and preventive examinatio…

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