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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to investment service providers

Article L573-1

I.-It is an offence punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €375,000 for any natural person to provide investment services to third parties as a regular occupation without having been au…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Public policy

Article L2242-8

Companies with at least fifty employees are subject to a penalty payable by the employer in the absence of an agreement relating to professional equality between women and men at the end of the negoti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health record and compulsory examinations.

Article L2132-2-1

In the year following their third, sixth, ninth, twelfth and fifteenth birthdays, children must undergo a preventive oral health check-up by a dental surgeon or a doctor qualified in stomatology. This…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Admission to psychiatric care at the request of a third party or in the event of imminent danger

Article L3212-7

At the end of the first period of psychiatric care ordered in application of the second paragraph of article L. 3212-4, the care may be continued by the director of the establishment for periods of on…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Ingredients and emissions

Article L3512-16

I. - The sale, distribution or free offer of cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco is prohibited: 1° flavoured with a clearly identifiable odour or taste before or during consumption, other than that o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L4363-2

Illegal practice of the profession of hearing aid acoustician, optician-monitor, ortho-prosthetist, chiropodist-orthotist, ocularist, epithesist or orthopaedic-orthotist is punishable by one year's im…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Governance of the plan

Article R144-14

The supervisory committee of a people's pension savings plan: 1° Each year, draws up the plan's budget, specifying in particular the conditions and limits under which the supervisory committee may inc…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-28

The request from the Minister for Defence for an extension of the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation of an invention which is the subject of a patent application, including when the latt…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Organisation of detention facilities

Article R744-6

Administrative detention centres meet the following standards:1° A minimum usable surface area of ten square metres per detainee, including rooms and areas freely accessible during working hours;2° No…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN THE WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS

Article R764-3

For the application of this book in the Wallis and Futuna Islands: 1° The references to the Prefect are replaced by the reference to the High Administrator of the Wallis and Futuna Islands; 2° The ref…

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