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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Antenatal diagnostics: prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation diagnosis.

Article L2131-5

…lantation diagnosis may be carried out in an establishment specifically authorised for this purpose;4° The conditions of establishment and operation that public health establishments and medical biolo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Openings, mutations and transfers.

Article L3332-5

Articles L. 3332-3 to L. 3332-4-1 are not applicable in the départements of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle. In these departments, article 33 of the local professional code of 26 July 1900 remains in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Specific provisions relating to assignment subledgers

Article R342-5

Assets which are recorded separately in the accounts as provided for in Article R. 342-1 are kept by a single custodian. This custodian shall open, in the name of the insurance undertaking, a cash acc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose of policies to promote the employment of people with disabilities.

Article L5211-5

…ation of disabled workers. This plan, coordinated with the regional programme defined in article L. 5211-3, includes: 1° A regional diagnosis including local diagnoses drawn up with the collaboration…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation

Article R6322-5

…or General of the Regional Health Agency receives all the documents provided for in Article R. 6322-4. However, the application is deemed to be complete on the day it is received if, within one month…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L356-5

…nce, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall apply the provisions of Article L. 356-4 to it. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the other supervisory authoriti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the Examining Magistrate and the Examining Chamber

Article D47-27

If the mental disorder of a person under investigation and remanded in custody requires care and compromises the safety of individuals or seriously undermines public order, the public prosecutor, in a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Drawing up lists of candidates

Article R4031-30

…the exception of the lists of candidates for the unions mentioned in 1° and 2° of II of article R. 4031-6, which include four and eight candidates respectively, as well as the lists of candidates for…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: The knowledge test referred to in article L. 812-3

Article A812-27

The knowledge-testing examination consists of the following tests: 1° A written test, lasting five hours, the subject of which is the processing of a file relating to one or more of the missions likel…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
1. Functions.

Article R6152-30

Hospital practitioners may, with the agreement of the director of the health establishment, on the proposal of the head of department or, failing that, the head of the internal structure and after con…

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