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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Administrative detention

Article R751-8

A foreign national placed in administrative detention pursuant to article L. 751-9 may, independently of the examination of their state of vulnerability by the administrative authority when they are p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Assistant pharmacists.

Article R5125-34

The assistant pharmacists referred to in article L. 5125-20 are persons who, fulfilling the conditions for practising pharmacy in France, carry out their activity: 1° In a pharmacy, with the pharmacis…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 8: Matrimonial brokerage contracts

Article L224-91

Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 221-18, within seven days of signing the contract, the contracting party of the professional referred to in article L. 224-90 may go back on his commi…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Ski lifts and ski runs.

Article L342-19

In municipalities classified as winter sports and mountaineering resorts and having a land use plan that was enforceable on 10 January 1985 or a local town planning plan, the provisions of article L.…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Definition and scope of application

Article R711-1

The rules relating to the effects of a referral to the over-indebtedness commission on requests for an ex gratia remission or a waiver of payment that may be granted by the tax collection authorities…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The People's Savings Plan.

Article R221-65

The opening of a People's Savings Plan is the subject of a written contract between the subscriber and one of the organisations mentioned in article L. 221-18 that has signed an authorisation agreemen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: The industrial tribunal

Article R1523-1

For the application of articles R. 1441-3, R. 1441-6 to R. 1441-7, and R. 1441-18 to the industrial tribunals of Guadeloupe, references to the department, the departmental level and the regional level…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Recognition of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-32

Where the final decision on the recognition and enforcement of the conviction or the probation decision cannot be taken within sixty days of receipt of the sentencing decision and the certificate, the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3

Article L713-14

The electoral rolls are drawn up under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat by a commission chaired by the judge responsible for supervising the trade and companies register and are su…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Compulsory licences and expropriation for national defence purposes

Article R613-39

The decree pronouncing, under the conditions provided for by article L. 613-20, the expropriation of an invention, which is the subject of a patent application or patent, shall be notified by the Mini…

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