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Showing 191200 of 65739 articles for Art. 384 and Cass. 1ère civ. 6-3-2013 n° 11-26.728 FS-PBI

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Allocation of seats to employee trade unions

Article R23-112-3

The seats are allocated to the employee trade union organisations mentioned in 1° of article L. 23-112-1 in proportion to the results obtained in application of article R. 23-112-2 according to the hi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK I: TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY OF GUYANA

Article L71-110-3

…sembly of French Guyana shall present a report on the situation with regard to equality between men and women concerning the operation of the territorial community of French Guyana, the policies that…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE XI: FINANCES OF THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF FRENCH GUYANA

Article D71-114-3

Reversals of overpayments made during the financial year in which the payment was made may be credited back to the article which originally bore the expenditure..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-34

…s not apply where the person claimed waives it under the conditions provided for in articles 696-28 and 696-40 or where the French Government gives its consent under the conditions set out in article…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Intervention by the guardianship judge

Article 387-6

The legal administrator is required to comply with the summonses of the guardianship judge and the public prosecutor and to provide them with any information they require.The judge may issue injunctio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-32

…subject to verification that he or she can be returned to France to serve the sentence that may be handed down by the judicial authority of the issuing State for the acts that are the subject of the w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-34

…any time from the Investigating Chamber in accordance with the forms provided for in Articles 148-6 and 148-7. The wanted person's lawyer is summoned, by registered letter with acknowledgement of rece…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-36

…or him or her. The provisions of Article 74-2 shall then apply, the powers of the public prosecutor and the liberty and custody judge provided for by this article being respectively entrusted to the p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-31

…ts to his surrender, the investigating chamber informs him of the legal consequences of his consent and of its irrevocable nature. When the wanted person maintains his consent to surrender, the Invest…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appearance before the Investigating Chamber

Article 695-35

The release or modification of judicial supervision or electronically monitored house arrest may be ordered at any time by the investigating chamber under the conditions provided for in article 199, e…

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