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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVI: Prosecution, investigation and trial of drug trafficking offences

Article 706-30-1

…udicial police officer and chosen from persons other than those under their authority. The weighing may also be carried out, under the same conditions, during the flagrante delicto or preliminary inve…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-8

Under terms specified by the decree provided for in article 706-53-12, the file manager shall directly notify the Ministry of the Interior, which shall immediately forward the information to the compe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The trade union committee.

Article L5212-7-1

The number of seats on the syndicate's committee, or their distribution among the member communes, may be modified at the request of: 1° Either the syndicate's committee; 2° Or the municipal council o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Powers and funding of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee

Article R1432-70-1

…h the conditions set out in article 63 and the second paragraph of article 93 of decree no. 2020-1427 of 20 November 2020 relating to administrative social committees in State administrations and publ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3b: Hybrid specialities

Article R5121-9-7

…cularly with regard to dosage. The register also lists the medical situations in which substitution may be carried out by the pharmacist within a hybrid group, in accordance with the Order mentioned i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-5-1

…t in a state to be liquidated and the guarantee fund does not contest the right to compensation, it may, at any stage of the procedure, pay an advance to the victim. The guarantee fund shall keep the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-18

…elating to private life unrelated to the offences referred to in the orders authorising the measure may be kept in the case file. Conversations and data in a foreign language are transcribed into Fren…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Provisions applicable to refugees, stateless persons and beneficiaries of territorial asylum or subsidiary protection and to French nationals who have returned to French territory at the request of the French authorities

Article R4221-14-7

…at the following session and, where applicable, at each of the subsequent sessions for which they may sit in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of I of article L. 4111-2.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R132-5-7

…essly stated in the contract that this option does not apply to the beneficiary of the contract, he may, at any time, send the beneficiary of the contract, by registered letter or electronic registere…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI: Witness protection

Article 706-62-1

…e of his relatives, the examining magistrate or the president of the trial court ruling in chambers may order either of his own motion, or at the request of the public prosecutor or the parties, that…

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