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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Duration of the measure

Article 442

…personal faculties of the person concerned described in article 425 clearly does not appear likely to improve according to current scientific knowledge, the judge may, by specially reasoned decision…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Duration of the measure

Article 441

…dge who issues a guardianship measure may, by specially reasoned decision and on the assent of a doctor registered on the list referred to in Article 431 noting that the alteration of the personal fac…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R1232-4-4

I.-A person may refuse to have an organ removed from him or her after his or her death, primarily by registering on the automated national register of organ removal refusals under the conditions set o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-40-4

…information systems, in place of standardised documents; - the adaptation of standardised documents to the département's own statistical needs or those of other partners in the housing solidarity fund…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Account rights and customer relations

Article R312-4-4

I. - The concepts of recurring transfers and regular transfers referred to in article L. 312-1-7 refer to any transaction credited to the customer's account by the same issuer at least twice during th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Infringements of the obligation to control access by minors to cinemas

Article R432-4

For an adult responsible for the supervision of a minor, accompanying the minor into a cinema where a cinematographic work is being shown, the showing of which is forbidden to spectators of the minor'…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-4

…business, an ancillary financial activity which falls within one of the categories mentioned in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561-2 and which presents little risk of money laundering or terrorist financing…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Determination of seats allocated to organisations

Article L1441-4

…e Minister of Labour determine the number of seats allocated for the duration of the term of office to the trade union and professional organisations per industrial tribunal, college and section, on t…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to film club screenings

Article D214-4

The authorisation to disseminate culture through cinema provided for in 2° of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-41

…phonie and Algeria; 3° "European country" means a Member State of the European Union, a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, a State party to the European Convention on Cinemato…

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