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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Applying for leave as part of a career transition project

Article R6323-10-1

I.-The employer may defer the granting of the career transition leave requested by an employee: 1° When it considers that the absence of the person concerned could have consequences prejudicial to the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Management entrusted to private-law bodies by agreement or convention.

Article L5427-1

The signatory parties to the agreement provided for in article L. 5422-20 entrust the management of the unemployment insurance scheme to a private law body of their choice. The institution mentioned i…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Family proceedings

Article 1136-1

Applications relating to the operation of matrimonial property regimes and indivisions between persons bound by a civil solidarity pact or between cohabitees, as well as those relating to the liquidat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Combating the presence of asbestos

Article L1334-12-1

The owners, or failing that the operators, of built-up buildings shall have them inspected for the presence of asbestos; if asbestos is found to be present, they shall have a diagnosis made of the sta…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Information on the payer and beneficiary accompanying transfers of funds

Article L722-19

Where there are indications that cash worth less than €10,000 or CFP francs 1,193,300, carried by a bearer or forming part of a consignment without the intervention of a bearer, coming from or going t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: The rights of spouses and matrimonial property regimes.

Article 1290

The urgent measures provided for in

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Conurbation community

Article L5216-8-1

The loss of revenue suffered by the conurbation community as a result of the extension from fifteen to twenty-five years of the exemptions from property tax on built properties provided for in article…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: NATIONAL DATA FILE CONTAINING INFORMATION ON CHARACTERISED PAYMENT INCIDENTS

Article L751-1

…Banque de France, which alone is authorised to centralise this information.It is subject to the loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Types of practice

Article R743-120

…rce are governed by the provisions of Book II, subject to the provisions of this section and of law n° 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating rights

Article L333-1-2

When the right to organise bets is granted by a sports federation or by an organiser of sports events mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 331-5 to betting operators holding the authorisatio…

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