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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Entry into office, age limit and honorary membership

Article R742-32

The title of honorary commercial court clerk may be conferred by the public prosecutor at the court of appeal on commercial court clerks who have served for at least twenty years.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Entry into office, age limit and honorary membership

Article R742-31

Within one month of their appointment, commercial court clerks take an oath before the commercial court, in the following terms:"I swear to faithfully perform my duties with accuracy and probity and t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Relations with other health professions and veterinary surgeons.

Article R4235-32

The citation of scientific work in a publication, whatever its nature, must be faithful and scrupulously loyal.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Relations with other health professions and veterinary surgeons.

Article R4235-31

Pharmacists must maintain good relations with members of the medical profession, members of other health professions and veterinary surgeons and respect their professional independence.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Relations with other health professions and veterinary surgeons.

Article R4235-33

Pharmacists must refrain from any action that might harm the practitioners mentioned in article R. 4235-31 in relation to their customers.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Nursing staff within inter-company occupational health services.

Article R4623-36

With the exception of emergency situations, nurses' work is mainly focused on prevention.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions specific to the "paediatric critical care" modality

Article D6124-32

I. - The hospitalisation sector of the paediatric critical care unit includes a minimum number of beds determined as follows: 1° At least eight beds for the paediatric critical care unit referred to i…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 300

…1° For those liable for value added tax subject to the normal actual taxation system mentioned in 2 of Article 287, on the appendix to the declaration mentioned in 1 of the same article 287 filed in r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General principles.

Article 373

…who is unable to express his or her will due to incapacity, absence or any other cause is deprived of the exercise of parental authority.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General principles.

Article 372

…the case provided for in article 342-11.However, where parentage is established with regard to one of them more than one year after the birth of a child whose parentage is already established with re…

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