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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 255

Only citizens of either sex, aged over twenty-three, who can read and write in French, enjoy political, civil and family rights, and are not in any of the cases of incapacity or incompatibility listed…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 256

Sont incapables d'être jurés : 1° Persons whose bulletin no. 1 of the criminal record mentions a conviction for a felony or misdemeanour; 2° (Repealed); 3° Those who are in a state of indictment or in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 258

Persons over the age of seventy or who do not have their main residence in the department in which the assize court has its seat may be exempted from jury duty when they apply to the commission provid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 257

Jury duty is incompatible with those listed below: 1° Member of the Government, of Parliament, of the Constitutional Council, of the High Council of the Judiciary and of the Economic, Social and Envir…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART ONE

Article Annexe 11-2 (suite 3)

…TIMS OF MEDICAL ACCIDENTS, IATROGENIC CONDITIONS OR NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE D. 1142-2 VII. - CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMWhatever the nature and origin of the cardiovascular lesion, the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Procedures for implementing genetic characteristic tests and identifications by genetic fingerprinting and informing next of kin

Article L1131-2-2

…reach, observed in an establishment, a health cooperation group or a laboratory, of the legislative and regulatory requirements applicable to the examination of genetic characteristics for medical pur…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: National Council and National Disciplinary Chamber.

Article L4122-2-2

…e general operating rules applicable to all ordinal bodies in its internal regulations. It draws up and publishes an annual activity report, which includes data on disciplinary cases collected by the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Lists of candidates and individual applications

Article D1441-22-2

…ative of the trade union or professional organisation, having obtained seats pursuant to Article R. 1441-2, that may be recorded in the automated processing are as follows: 1° Surname, first names and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Assistance and representation of the parties

Article D1453-2-2

…forming the duties of trade union defender are specified by the organisation proposing registration and brought to the attention of the administrative authority.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Election of members of territorial and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article R713-27-2

After the votes have been counted in the elections for members of the regional chambers of commerce and industry, a committee composed of the regional prefect or his representative, the president of t…

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