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Showing 121130 of 27570 articles for Art. Aut. conc. n° 09-DCC-73 du 9 Dec 2009

French General Tax CodeIn force
1 : Registration fees

Article 739

…encing limited-term leases of real estate, business assets or customer lists are subject to a fixed duty of €25 when registration is requested by the parties.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Suspended sentence and adjournment

Article 736

The suspension of sentence does not extend to the payment of damages. Nor does it extend to the incapacities, prohibitions and disqualifications resulting from the conviction. However, these incapacit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Suspended sentence and adjournment

Article 735

Where the trial court has not ruled on the revocation of the suspended sentence pursuant to Article 132-36 of the Penal Code because it was unaware of the first conviction, the public prosecutor may s…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 734

…al imposing a sentence may, in the cases and under the conditions provided for in the articles 132-29 to 132-57 of the Penal Code, order that its execution be stayed. The court may also defer pronounc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Suspended sentence and adjournment

Article 739

…e supervision of the territorially competent sentence enforcement judge in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 712-10.During the probation period, the sentenced person must comply with a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-73

…the judicial supervision order shall be refused in the following cases:1° The certificate is not produced, is incomplete or clearly does not correspond to a judicial supervision order and has not been…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Drawing up and auditing the accounts of the social and economic committee

Article L2315-73

Where the social and economic committee exceeds the thresholds set by decree for at least two of the three criteria mentioned in II of article L. 2315-64, it is required to appoint at least one statut…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Therapeutic use exemptions

Article D232-73

The application for a Therapeutic Use Exemption shall be sent to the Agency by the athlete, the person(s) with parental authority or the legal representative of the person concerned, by any means whic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to establishments organising underwater diving using air, oxygen or mixtures other than air

Article A322-73

Several divers who together make a dive with the same characteristics of duration, depth and path, even if they breathe different mixes, constitute a group. When the group is made up of divers with di…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Implementing provisions

Article R4451-73

…ired to manage the results of the monitoring of exposure to ionising radiation. 4451-1; 3° The procedures and conditions for communicating to the information and monitoring system for exposure to ioni…

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