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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Maintenance and quality control obligations

Article R5212-27-1

For the medical devices mentioned in Article R. 5212-26 and used during exposure to ionising radiation :1° Manufacturers shall provide operators with the internal quality control procedures for their…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constituent agreement and internal regulations

Article R6132-1-2

Where the agreement establishing the regional hospital grouping so provides, the director of the support establishment signs association agreements with establishments providing home hospital care, wh…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 220-1

If one of the spouses seriously fails in his or her duties and thereby jeopardises the interests of the family, the family affairs judge may prescribe any urgent measures required by those interests.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 225-1

Each of the spouses may bear, as a matter of usage, the name of the other spouse, by substitution or addition to his or her own name in the order he or she chooses, within the limit of one surname for…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter X: Legal protection of minors and adults

Article 1258-2

The court clerk shall also check, in the light of the documents produced, that: 1° The principal and the agent were of full age or emancipated minors on the date the mandate was drawn up; 2° The proce…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter X: Legal protection of minors and adults

Article 1259-2

The judge may suspend the effects of the future protection mandate in the decision to open a judicial safeguard measure or, if the existence of the mandate is brought to his attention after this openi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: The procedure applicable to divorce by judicial mutual consent

Article 250-1

When the conditions set out in article 232 are met, the judge shall homologate the agreement settling the consequences of the divorce and, by the same decision, pronounce the divorce.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Specific powers of the President of the Investigating Chamber

Article 221-1

When a period of four months has elapsed since the date of the last investigative act necessary to ascertain the truth, the president of the investigating chamber may, by petition, refer the matter to…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III-1: Sale of buildings to be constructed.

Article 1601-2

A forward sale is a contract in which the seller undertakes to deliver the property on completion and the buyer undertakes to take delivery of it and pay the price on the delivery date. Ownership is t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Individuals

Article 1148-2

…n as a minor child expresses his or her wish to be heard by the judge under the conditions provided for in article 388-1 of the Civil Code, the court may be seised in accordance with the procedures se…

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