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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions common to mutual insurance companies with a board of directors and general management and with a supervisory board and management board

Article R322-55

…ist representative" refers to any natural person, other than the director referred to in article R. 322-53 or the member of the supervisory board referred to in article R. 322-54, who is a member of a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Control rules

Article R1251-5

The prior declaration is dated and signed by the temporary employment contractor. Two copies must be sent by registered post to the Labour Inspectorate responsible for the company's head office. It mu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Optimisation of medical exposure to ionising radiation

Article R1333-59

Information on the protection of pregnant or breast-feeding women is provided to them prior to any exposure, in particular by means of posters in reception areas and the waiting room.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Optimisation of medical exposure to ionising radiation

Article R1333-57

The implementation of the optimisation principle referred to in 2° of Article L. 1333-2 aims to keep the dose of ionising radiation as low as reasonably achievable in order to obtain the medical infor…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of the project owner.

Article R4532-5

When the project owner appoints a coordinator for the construction phase, separate from the coordinator for the design, study and project development phase, this appointment is made before the start o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article L1454-5

Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out inarticle 121-2 of the French Criminal Code, for the offences set out in this chapter shall incur, in addition to the fine set o…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for exercising the right to vote and stand for election and rules applicable to the conduct of the ballot for the election of members to the board of directors of the Ecole nationale des sports de montagne and to the advisory boards of the Ecole nationale de ski et d'alpinisme and the Centre national de ski nordique et de moyenne montagne

Article A211-54

…n one month before the expiry date of the term of office of current members as set byarticle D. 211-57 of the French Sports Code. Voting is by secret ballot. Voting by post or by proxy is permitted.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Master and feeder UCITS

Article L214-22-5

The master UCITS approved by the Financial Markets Authority shall immediately inform the latter of the identity of any feeder UCITS investing in its units or shares. When the feeder UCITS is establis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-9-1

…a request for extradition or provisional arrest for the purposes of extradition, Articles 74-2 and 230-33 are applicable. The powers of the public prosecutor and the liberty and custody judge provided…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for processing applications

Article R1142-63-9

On receipt of the complete file, the Office forwards it to the President of the College. The College will ensure that the claimant can prove the existence of a functional impairment attributable to be…

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