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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D71-114-2

The appropriations allocated to expenditure for each financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the fi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Arrangements for access to individual dosimetric monitoring data

Article R4451-70

I.-The occupational physician, under his responsibility, may communicate, in application of Article L. 4451-2, to the radiation protection advisor information covered by medical confidentiality relati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Packaging units for rolling tobacco

Article R3512-24

I.-A unit packet of rolling tobacco may be: 1° Parallelepiped with characteristics that may be specified by order; 2° Cylindrical; 3° A pouch. II-The packaging unit complies with the size characterist…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private practice.

Article R4127-88

…d by the Departmental Council for a renewable period of three months. If the Departmental Council remains silent for two months on the application for authorisation or renewal, this is deemed to const…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Organisation

Article R4133-6

The Conseils Départementaux de l'Ordre des Médecins (Departmental Councils of the Medical Association), the Conseils Nationaux Professionnels (National Professional Councils), the Commissions et Confé…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Duties towards members of other healthcare professions.

Article R4127-361

As soon as circumstances require, the midwife must offer to consult a doctor. She must accept any consultation with a doctor requested by the patient or her relatives. In either case, she may suggest…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Duties of confraternity.

Article R4127-266

In principle, the dental surgeon must agree to see any other dental surgeon or doctor for a consultation when such a consultation is requested by the patient or the patient's family. When a consultati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Medicinal products and medical devices which midwives may prescribe

Article D4151-31

Midwives may prescribe for women, children and women's male partners and may obtain for their professional use the medicinal products listed by therapeutic class in tables I, II and III of appendix 41…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Temporary suspension of right to practise on grounds of infirmity or medical condition

Article R4221-15-1

The president of the competent regional council or central council appoints a rapporteur. The pharmacist concerned and, where applicable, the national council are convened by registered letter with ac…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: The knowledge test referred to in article L. 811-5

Article A811-35

For the written test, candidates may use codes and compendia of laws and decrees containing references to articles of doctrine and case law, excluding however codes annotated and commented on, article…

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