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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Suspension and dissolution

Article LO6322-16

When the functioning of the Executive Council proves impossible, the Government may, on its own initiative or at the request of the President of the Territorial Council, pronounce its dissolution by r…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Suspension and dissolution

Article LO6432-16

When the functioning of the Executive Council proves impossible, the Government may, on its own initiative or at the request of the President of the Territorial Council, pronounce its dissolution by r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Validation of the agreement

Article R15-33-60-5

If the president of the court issues a validation order, it specifies that the legal entity has a period of ten days to exercise its right of withdrawal by registered letter with acknowledgement of re…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Public prosecutor's delegates and mediators

Article R15-33-35

After having carried out all the procedures he or she deems useful, the public prosecutor or, if the person concerned is to perform his or her duties within the jurisdiction of the court of appeal, th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Request for rectification, deletion or restriction of the obligation to submit data

Article R53-8-27

The competent public prosecutor, pursuant to the provisions of Article 706-53-10, to order, at the request of the person concerned, the rectification or deletion of the information contained in the fi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VI: Issuance of Bulletin No. 3 of the Criminal Record

Article R84

When there is no record in the criminal record or when the information contained in the records does not need to be entered on bulletin no. 3, the latter is cancelled by a crossbar. In this case, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal records

Article R294

I.-The first two paragraphs of article R. 69 are worded as follows: "The clerk of the court of first instance of the place of birth, for natural persons, and of the place of the registered office of t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Modification or release from house arrest with electronic surveillance

Article D32-19

In accordance with the provisions of articles 140 and 142-8, release from house arrest with electronic surveillance may be ordered at any time by the examining magistrate, either ex officio, or at the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation and operation

Article R1423-36

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 123-1 of the Code de l'organisation judiciaire, each industrial tribunal has a registry, the service of which is provided by State emplo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions for approval of practitioners

Article R1131-10

Renewal of the practitioner's accreditation is issued by the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine. Renewal is subject to assessment of the practitioner's activity, in accordance with the f…

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