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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE X: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF MARTINIQUE

Article L72-103-2

…icle L. 7227-28 and to the pension schemes for elected representatives pursuant to articles L. 7227-29 to L. 7227-32 ;4° The contribution to the Centre national de la fonction publique territoriale;5°…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article D31-3

…a person who claims to have been injured by an offence, other than those provided for by the law of 29 July 1881 on freedom of the press or by articles L. 86, L. 87, L. 91 to L. 100, L. 102 to L. 104,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, the freezing of assets and prohibited lotteries and games

Article L775-37

…are deleted; 4° In Articles L. 562-8 and L. 562-11, references to acts adopted pursuant to Article 29 of the Treaty on European Union or Article 75 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Un…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
3. Director.

Article R1142-52

…d expenditure, including for the Medical Risks Observatory set up in application of article L. 1142-29.He recruits, appoints and manages the Office's contract staff and, where appropriate, assigns the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Permanent access to the national health data system for certain public services

Article R1461-12

…rom the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as part of projects relating to public health; 29° Research teams from the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique as part…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article L5211-28-4

…property tax is increased by the amount of the levy on revenue provided for in A of III of article 29 of law no. 2020-1721 of 29 December 2020 on the finances for 2021. This allocation is distributed…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK VII: SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MAYOTTE

Article L1711-4

…yotte and the communes. ";8° In the first paragraph of Article L. 1424-41, the words: "on 1 January 1996" are replaced by the words: "on the date of the first meeting of the board of directors of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The National Advisory Commission on Natural Disasters

Article D125-2-1

…he committee is determined in accordance with the conditions laid down by decree no. 2015-354 of 27 March 2015.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1590

…the départements, the territorial collectivity of French Guiana or the territorial collectivity of Martinique, where the perimeter of the exclusive hydrocarbon exploration licence falls within their…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R4462-1

…out by the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Defence pursuant to Decree no. 76-225 of 4 March 1976, as amended, laying down the respective powers of the Minister of the Interior and the Mi…

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