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Showing 651660 of 58927 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 1-6-2010 n° 09-65.482

French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Budgetary control

Article A211-63-1

After consultation with the authorising officer, the budget controller shall draw up a document setting out the detailed list of acts subject to approval or opinion, the amounts of the approval or opi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Nordic cross-country skiing and related activities.

Article A212-192-6

Declarants who have obtained a ranking equal to or less than two hundred points for men and two hundred and fifty points for women on the scale corresponding to the "distance" ranking set by the Inter…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Content of the agreement.

Article L2372-6-1

The agreement referred to in Article L. 2372-2 also provides, for all rules relating to employee profit-sharing, for a level at least equivalent to that existing in the company being split up or which…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Composition and mandate

Article L23-112-6

Disputes relating to the conditions of appointment of the members of the commission shall fall within the jurisdiction of the courts. Appeals are only admissible if lodged within fifteen days of the d…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Provisions applicable where the employer is established in another Member State of the European Community or the European Economic Area

Article L3253-18-6

Article L. 3253-15 is applicable with the exception of the last paragraph. When the mandataire judiciaire, the administrator or the liquidator receives sums due to employees from an institution locate…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rights of persons under psychiatric care.

Article L3211-12-6

When the psychiatric care measure taken against a person is lifted in application of this chapter or chapters II or III of this title, a psychiatrist from the host establishment will inform the person…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Beverages.

Article L3351-6-1

Selling alcoholic beverages at a fuel sales outlet outside the hours specified in the fourth paragraph of article L. 3322-9 or selling refrigerated alcoholic beverages there is punishable by a fine of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Chiropodists.

Article L4322-11-6

Councils are elected by a majority of the members present or having voted by post or electronically.A decree of the Council of State shall determine the composition of the various councils and discipl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Physiotherapists.

Article L4321-19-6

An inter-regional council and a disciplinary chamber of first instance of the Antilles-Guyane order of masseur-physiotherapists are responsible for masseur-physiotherapists practising in French Guyana…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Lost, destroyed or stolen life insurance policies or capitalisation or savings bonds.

Article R*160-6

Where two years have elapsed from the date of the objection and no third party holder has come forward, the objector may, on production of a simple letter from the company certifying that the objectio…

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