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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-503

The following may be recruited 1° As general hospital assistants, doctors, dental surgeons and pharmacists who meet the legal conditions for practising their profession; 2° As specialist assistants, t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-509

Candidates for the post of assistant must provide proof, in the form of a certificate issued by a hospital doctor, that they are physically and mentally fit to perform the hospital duties for which th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-511

Assistants are recruited for an initial period of either one year or two years, renewable for periods of one year, but the total period of service as an assistant may not exceed six years.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-507

…entioned in 8° of article R. 6144-1 and within the framework of the territorial policy mentioned in 5° of II of article R. 6132-10-1.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Recruitment.

Article R6152-513

Non-renewal of a contract at the end of a recruitment period is notified with two months' notice. Resignations are subject to the same notice period.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: General conditions of performance.

Article 503

Judgments may not be enforced against those against whom they are opposed until they have been notified, unless enforcement is voluntary.In the event of enforcement solely on the basis of the original…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 553

In the event of indivisibility with regard to several parties, an appeal by one party has effect with regard to the others even if they have not joined the proceedings; an appeal against one party is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 596

In criminal cases and where the accused has been convicted, if the judgment has pronounced a penalty other than that applied by law to the nature of the crime, the annulment of the judgment may be pur…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 556

The landings and accretions that successively and imperceptibly form at the riparian bottoms of a watercourse are called "alluvium".Alluvium benefits the riparian owner, whether the watercourse is sta…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Opposition.

Article 575

If the opposition is made in the manner provided for in Article 573 (paragraph 2) it must, on pain of inadmissibility, be declared at the clerk's office of the court which handed down the decision by…

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