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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Housing information and assistance committee

Article L2315-51

The Housing Information and Assistance Committee facilitates housing for employees and their access to home ownership and rented accommodation. To this end, the committee: 1° Seeks out the possibiliti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Criminal penalties

Article L5462-5

For a manufacturer, agent, distributor or importer of a device referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 to carry out, cause to be carried out, disseminate or cause to be disseminated adver…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Ethics

Article 132-5

Committee members are subject to a duty of confidentiality, under which they must refrain from taking a public position that could undermine the serenity of the committees' work or their ethical oblig…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R3354-5

The clinical medical examination and blood test are carried out by a doctor or, failing this, by an intern or medical student authorised to practise medicine as a substitute, under the conditions set…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 9: Procedure.

Article L145-58

The owner may, until the expiry of a period of fifteen days from the date on which the decision has become final, avoid payment of the compensation, on condition that he bears the costs of the proceed…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Allocation de professionnalisation et de solidarité et allocation de fin de droits.

Article D5424-57

A worker involuntarily deprived of employment who has ceased to benefit from the end-of-rights allowance, when the compensation period had not been exhausted, and who has not acquired new rights under…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Preliminary book: MIXED PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Article L2000-5

Where a purchaser decides to conclude a single public contract falling within the scope of Book I intended to meet a need relating to both its activities as a contracting authority and its activities…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VII: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN THE FRENCH AUSTRALIAN AND ANTARCTIC TERRITORIES

Article L367-5

If a foreign national who has not been admitted to enter the French Southern and Antarctic Lands has not been able to disembark in a foreign territory under the conditions provided for in Article

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Invalidity

Article L235-5

If, on expiry of the period provided for in Article L. 235-4, no decision has been taken, the court shall rule at the request of the most diligent party.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FOR SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article R361-5

For the application of this book in Mayotte, references to the court of appeal are replaced by a reference to the appeal chamber of the court of appeal of Saint-Denis de La Réunion in Mamoudzou.

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