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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions applicable to lifts and work equipment serving defined levels by means of a passenger compartment.

Article R4323-108

Access to premises, installations or locations where it is only necessary to enter for the purposes of checking and maintaining the lifts and work equipment referred to in Article R. 4323-107 is only…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions applicable to lifts and work equipment serving defined levels by means of a passenger compartment.

Article R4323-109

When the equipment is exclusively intended for transporting objects, it is forbidden for people to use it. This prohibition is clearly displayed when the equipment has an accessible passenger compartm…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Insurance and capitalisation companies

Article 1065

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, transfers of portfolios of contracts and the movable or immovable reserves relating to these contracts are exempt from all registration duties when they are…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Gifts made by marriage contract to the spouses and to unborn children of the marriage.

Article 1086

A gift by marriage contract in favour of the spouses and the unborn children of their marriage may still be made, on condition of paying indiscriminately all the debts and charges of the donor's estat…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1075-1

When an application for compensatory allowance is made to the judge or provided for in an agreement, each spouse shall produce the declaration on their honour referred to in article 272 of the Civil C…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications

Article 1076-1

Where one of the parties has only requested the payment of alimony or a contribution to the expenses of the marriage, the judge may not grant the divorce without inviting the parties to explain the pa…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Administrative rectification and cancellation

Article 1047

The purely material errors or omissions which, pursuant to Article 99-1 of the Civil Code, may be rectified by the civil registrar, are: 1° An error or omission in a civil status record, proof of whic…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 7: Executors.

Article 1031

The authorisations mentioned in articles 1030 and 1030-1 are given by the testator for a period which may not exceed two years from the opening of the will. An extension of up to one year may be grant…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Organisation and operation

Article R823-10

The deliberations of the Board of Directors relating to the objects mentioned in 6°, 7°, 8°, 10°, 11° and 16° of article R. 823-7 are enforceable only after they have been approved by the Minister for…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Professional elections.

Article 1008

If the statement of appeal has been made in the form of the procedure with compulsory representation, the appeal is nonetheless admissible regardless of the procedure subsequently followed, paragraph…

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