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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Health and safety coordination and coordinator.

Article L4532-5

Except in the cases provided for in Article L. 4532-7, the provisions necessary to ensure that the persons responsible for coordination have the authority and resources required to perform their dutie…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: General justification for categories of medical procedures using ionising radiation

Article R1333-51

Any organised screening programme involving exposure to ionising radiation is authorised by an order of the Minister for Health, issued after consultation with the Haute Autorité de Santé. This order…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-57

…y undertakings: a) In which, on the one hand, the undertaking has invested an amount in excess of 0.5% of the dispersion base defined in the first paragraph of Article R. 332-3 and in which, on the ot…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-50

…undertakes to perform duties in respect of that branch equivalent to those assigned by Articles L. 533-29 to L. 533-31-5 to the board of directors, the supervisory board or any other body performing…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors of the Executive Board.

Article L225-52

In the event of the opening of receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings pursuant to Titles III and IV of Book VI, the persons referred to in these provisions may be made liable for the compa…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1238-5

…lure by the employer, administrator or liquidator to comply with the provisions of articles L. 1233-58 and L. 1233-60 is punishable by a fine of 3,750 euros, imposed as many times as there are employe…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions relating to group insurance.

Article L141-5

Notwithstanding the provisions of articles L. 132-2 and L. 132-3, the legal representative of an adult under guardianship may take out a group insurance policy in the event of death on behalf of the a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 1342-5

The debtor of an obligation to deliver a certain body is discharged by its delivery to the creditor in the same condition, unless he proves, in the case of deterioration, that the deterioration is not…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Sub-title II: Courts with jurisdiction to prosecute, investigate and try crimes against humanity and war crimes and offences

Article 628-5

In the cases provided for in the articles 628-2 to 628-4, the committal or arrest warrant retains its enforceability; prosecution or investigative acts and formalities carried out before the decision…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3221-5

The representative of the State in the department may, in the event that this has not been done by the president of the departmental council, and after formal notice has remained without result, exerc…

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