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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IX: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article R595-3

…laced by references to the high commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia; 5° Article R. 521-8 is amended as follows: a) in the first paragraph, after the words "placed in possession", the word…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: CASES IN WHICH A FOREIGNER MAY BE ASSIGNED RESIDENCE

Article L731-1

…ion on returning to French territory taken in application of articles L. 612-6, L. 612-7 and L. 612-8;3° The foreign national must be removed to implement a decision taken by another State, pursuant t…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Organisation of detention facilities

Article R744-6

…additional detainees;7° One or more rooms with medical equipment, reserved for the medical service;8° A room for receiving visits from families and consular authorities;9° The room mentioned in artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Retail distribution.

Article L5424-4

…to financial penalties: 1° Selling the medicinal products and products mentioned in article L. 5121-8 at a price higher than that resulting from price regulations; 2° Selling to the public medicinal p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Provisions specific to certain institutions and organisations.

Article L6147-12

…or more other elements of the armed forces health service mentioned in articles L. 1222-11, L. 5124-8 or L. 6326-1 contribute to the regional health project;3° One or more elements of the armed forces…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article R64

…offences, in its capacity as manager of the said file, in accordance with Articles 706-53-3, R. 53-8-3 and R. 53-8-24 ; c) Persons entered in the automated national judicial file for perpetrators of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings, known as "Redex".

Article R53-21-2

I.-The persons whose data is recorded in the register are those being prosecuted, within the meaning of paragraphs 10 and 1 of Article 706-56-2, and those convicted of one of the offences for which so…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Credits

Article L754-3

…e L. 313-4 is supplemented by the words: "under the conditions set out in articles L. 351-7, L. 351-8, L. 354-1 and L. 354-2 of the same code"; 3° The beginning of the first paragraph of article L. 31…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health surveillance, safety and policing

Article R1435-2

…ng to hospitalisation without consent as provided for in articles L. 3211-11, L. 3211-11-1, L. 3212-8, L. 3213-1 to L. 3213-9, L. 3214-3 and L. 3214-4 ; 2° Protection against environmental health risk…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Experimentation

Article R5121-15

…nsurance certificate; 7° Where applicable, the exclusion period referred to in article L. 1121-12 ; 8° The opinion of the Advisory Committee for the Protection of Individuals consulted about the proje…

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