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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Claims in contentious matters.

Article 58

Where this option is open to them under Article 12, the parties may, if they have not already done so since the dispute arose, give the judge, in the joint application, the task of ruling as amiable c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Declarations of birth.

Article 58

Any person who has found a newborn child is required to report this to the civil registrar of the place where the child was found. If he does not consent to take charge of the child, he must hand it o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 58

Subject to the requirements of the investigations, any communication or disclosure without the authorisation of the person under investigation or his successors in title or the signatory or recipient…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter III: Immunities, safeguards and obligations of customs officials.

Article 58

1. Officers of customs brigades must undertake to leave the customs area for five years in the event of their dismissal, unless they return to the domicile they had in the area before joining the cust…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Suspended sentence

Article R58

The sentence enforcement judge in whose jurisdiction the convicted offender resides supervises the execution of the measures and obligations relating to the probationary suspension.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Enforcement of pre-trial detention

Article D58

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article D. 213-4 du code pénitentiaire, dans les maisons d'arrêt où, par suite de la distribution des locaux ou de leur encombrement temporaire, le régime de l…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-58-8

The persons referred to in 2° and 3° of article R. 814-58-6 as well as their authorised employees or the persons to whom authority has been given to carry out the dematerialised procedural acts in que…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Patent rights

Article R613-58-2

Failing an express decision within the time limit mentioned in Article R. 613-58-1, the application is deemed to have been accepted.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Inter-municipal equalisation fund, allocations and other revenue distributed by the French Polynesia Local Finance Committee.

Article R2573-58-2

The Local Finance Committee, in accordance with the choices made pursuant to Article R. 2573-58-1, distributes the territorial allocation for investment by the communes between the communes of French…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Agency System Steering Committee

Article R1411-58-2

…he ex officio members. The agenda is sent to the members mentioned in II and III of article R. 1411-58-1. II - When the Committee issues the opinion provided for in article L. 1411-5-3 of the Public H…

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