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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 56-4

I.-When a search is envisaged in a specifically identified place containing items covered by national defence secrecy, the search may only be carried out by a magistrate in the presence of the Chairma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 55-1

The judicial police officer may take, or have taken under his control, from any person likely to provide information on the facts in question or from any person in respect of whom there are one or mor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57-1

Officers of the judicial police or, under their responsibility, officers of the judicial police may, in the course of a search carried out under the conditions provided for in this code, access via a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Prior authorisation and declaration

Article L331-5

…al person governed by private law, other than a sports federation, who organises an event open to licence holders in a discipline for which authority has been delegated in accordance with article L. 1…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-5

…d to in article L. 425-2 may only enter the premises referred to in article L. 425-4 between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. or at any time when these premises are open to the public or when a competition or sporti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment, transfer and dismissal.

Article L1225-5

An employee's dismissal is cancelled if, within fifteen days of being notified of the dismissal, she sends her employer a medical certificate stating that she is pregnant, in accordance with the condi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

Article L1423-5

Employee councillors elect a chairman or vice-chairman who is an employee.Employers' industrial tribunal members elect a chairman or vice-chairman who is an employer.Voting by mandate is possible. How…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Health certification and assessment.

Article L1414-5

…re, the Haute Autorité de santé issues an opinion addressed to the ministers responsible for health and industry on the references to harmonised standards in force applicable to medical biology labora…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional and nuclear risks.

Article L431-5

The State guarantee may be granted to the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance in respect of its reinsurance of risks covered by insurance or the financial guarantee pursuant to article L. 597-7 of the Envi…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Acceptance and approval procedures

Article L2193-5

…tender is submitted, the tenderer must identify in his tender the subcontractors he intends to use and the nature and amount of the subcontracted services.When the declaration of subcontracting is ma…

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