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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 11: Termination of service.

Article R6152-630-5

…interview(s) provided for in article R. 6152-630-3 focus mainly on : 1° The reasons for the request and the principle of the contractual termination ; 2° Setting the date on which the contract will en…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Automatic provisional enforcement

Article 514-6

When a case is referred to it pursuant to articles 514-3 and 514-4, the First President shall rule in summary proceedings, in a decision that is not subject to appeal.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509-6

…the applicant by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.The duplicate of the application and the certificate or decision shall be kept at the registry.The certificate issued pursuant to Reg…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2a : Changing the sex designation in civil status records

Article 61-5

…civil status records does not correspond to the sex in which he or she presents himself or herself and in which he or she is known may obtain its amendment.The main facts, proof of which may be provi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to certain offences against the rules governing public land transport services

Article 529-6

…lls recorded by sworn agents of the operator of a motorway or road structure open to public traffic and subject to tolls, including in the context of Article L. 130-9of the Highway Code, public action…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 530-6

For the application of the provisions relating to the fixed fine, the place of automated processing of nominative information relating to offences recorded by an official report drawn up in digital fo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-5

…sions of Article 706-71 shall apply to the simultaneous execution, on the territory of the Republic and abroad, of requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities or acts of mutual as…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-5

…ferent offences, account shall be taken, in deciding on priority, of all the factual circumstances, and in particular the relative seriousness and place of the offences, the respective dates of the re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 696-52

…concerned is habitually resident, under lawful conditions, in the territory of the executing State and, having been informed of the measures concerned, consents to return there; 2° The person concern…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the transmission by the French judicial authorities of decisions relating to judicial supervision to the competent authorities of another Member State of the European Union

Article 696-56

…ompetent to place a person under judicial supervision in another Member State of the European Union and to transmit that decision for recognition and enforcement in that State, in accordance with this…

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