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Showing 581590 of 31518 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 10-6-1971 n° 70-12.678

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Employment contract.

Article L5134-70-1

The weekly working time of the holder of an initiative-employment contract may not be less than twenty hours, except where the decision to award the aid provides for this in order to meet the needs of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Employment contract.

Article L5134-70-2

A certificate of professional experience is drawn up by the employer and given to the employee at his or her request or no later than one month before the end of the initiative-emploi contract.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Requests to make data available electronically

Article R15-33-70

Only judicial police officers assigned to a service or unit carrying out judicial police duties and who have been expressly authorised to do so by the head of the service or unit may make such request…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 4: Rights of persons detained in socio-medico-judicial security centres

Article R53-8-70

The sentence enforcement judge may grant the detainee permission to leave under mobile electronic surveillance for one or more days in order to maintain family ties or to prepare for the end of the de…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: The Pay Parking Disputes Commission

Article R2333-120-70

Applications for the enforcement of decisions handed down by the Commission du contentieux du stationnement payant may be submitted via the internet-accessible portal mentioned in article R. 2333-120-…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Conditions common to 'oncology' and 'oncology and onco-haematology'.

Article D6124-177-70

The authorisation holder offers each patient care in at least two of the following therapeutic practices: -masso-kinésithérapie; -ergothérapie; -diététique; -orthophonie; -psychological care; -psychom…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Performance of duties

Article R6152-708-1

Practitioners recruited on the basis of 3° of article L. 6152-1 working full time may carry out the expert assessments mentioned in II of article L. 6152-4 during their service obligations up to a lim…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Indigents

Article 1072

Extracts from civil status registers, acts of notoriety, consent, publications, family council deliberations, notification, where applicable, dispensations on the grounds of parentage, alliance or age…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
10°: Autonomous ports

Article 1044 A

The handover of goods to autonomous seaports, defined in

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Specific legacies.

Article 1023

A bequest made to a creditor shall not be deemed in set-off against his claim, nor a bequest made to a servant in set-off against his pledges.

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