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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 729

…ending.Conditional release may be granted to convicts who have to serve one or more custodial sentences if they demonstrate serious efforts to reintegrate and where they can prove:1° Either the exerci…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-8

…hen the formalities provided for in Article 171-2 have been complied with and the marriage has been celebrated in the forms customary in the country, it shall be entered in the civil status registers…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Lapse of sums held in an automatic account

Article 123-8

…sted by the account holder within one of the time limits set as follows for each category of aid concerned:1° In the case of automatic financial support for the production of feature films, within fiv…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Entry on the list of persons qualified in industrial property matters

Article R421-8

…de test in the French language before the jury provided for in article R. 421-6 the syllabus and procedures for which are laid down by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister responsib…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2 - Receipt and processing of requests for implementation of the individual right to training

Article R1621-8

…l elected representatives eligible for the individual right to training via the dematerialised service mentioned in article L. 1621-5. It defines, in the general conditions of use of this service, the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Departmental committee for psychiatric care

Article R3223-8

…pursuant to Chapters II to IV of Title I of this Book andarticle 706-135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, decisions to maintain or renew these measures and decisions to lift them, as well as decisio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Harvesting haematopoietic cells collected from bone marrow or peripheral blood from a donor of full age who is the subject of a legal protection measure with representation relating to the person

Article R1241-8

…it can give its opinion on the request. The committee of experts shall hear the donor in the presence of the person responsible for the protective measure or, where applicable, the ad hoc administrat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Organisation of the departmental- metropolitan fire and rescue service

Article L1424-73

…tan Lyon are elected under the same conditions as the representatives of the département in accordance with the provisions of article L. 1424-24-2.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Organisation of the departmental- metropolitan fire and rescue service

Article L1424-75

The administrative and technical commission of the fire and rescue services comprises: 1° Representatives of professional and volunteer firefighters, elected within four months of the general renewal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Organisation of the departmental- metropolitan fire and rescue service

Article L1424-74

…ction is not won in the first two rounds of voting, a third round is held and the election takes place by a relative majority of the votes cast. In the event of a tie, the election is won on the basis…

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