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Showing 491500 of 39565 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 7-4-2004 n° 465

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Suspension

Article R6152-717

When the interests of the service so require, the practitioner may be immediately suspended by the Director for a maximum period of two months. The suspended practitioner retains the remuneration ment…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Discipline

Article R6152-715

In the event of serious misconduct, the Director may, after having communicated the grievances to the person concerned and having invited him to present his observations within a period of eight days,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recruitment

Article R6152-704

The recruitment contract is an administrative contract. It is made in writing. A copy of the contract is given to the practitioner concerned, who forwards a copy to his local association. The director…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 775

Bulletin no. 2 is the record of the criminal records applicable to the same person, excluding those concerning the following decisions: 1° Convictions, convictions with an exemption from sentence or a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 730

Where the custodial sentence handed down is for a period of less than or equal to ten years, or where, regardless of the sentence initially handed down, the period of detention remaining to be served…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 768

The automated national criminal record, which may include one or more processing centres, is kept under the authority of the Minister of Justice. It receives, as far as persons born in France are conc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The constitution.

Article R822-72

…cles of Association comply with the requirements of articles 8, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 24 de la loi n° 66-879 du 29 novembre 1966. They also state: 1° The surname, first names and domicile of each mem…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 4: Obtaining a residence permit

Article L433-7

Subject to the exceptions provided for in article L. 426-18, a foreign national residing in France on a long-stay visa as defined in 2° of article L. 411-1, a temporary residence permit or a multi-ann…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Criteria for ordering redundancies.

Article L1233-7

When the employer makes an individual redundancy for economic reasons, he shall take into account the criteria set out in article L. 1233-5 when choosing the employee concerned.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Lapse of financial assistance

Article 121-7

Unless otherwise specified, decisions to grant financial assistance shall automatically lapse on expiry of a period of four years if all or part of the assistance has not been paid because the benefic…

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