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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Generic specialities

Article R5121-5

With a view to their inclusion in the register of generic groups referred to in Article L. 5121-10, generic medicinal products are identified by a decision of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Entry on the roll of the order

Article R4112-5-1

…l do not have suspensive effect. Subject to the following provisions, the provisions of article R. 4112-5 are applicable before the national council. When submitted by the departmental council, the ap…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Common provisions.

Article L322-1-5

Mutual insurance companies may form a mutual insurance group with legal personality. The articles of association of this grouping may provide for it to be open to bodies in the following categories:1°…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Suspension of sentence under article 720-1-1

Article D147-5

At any time, the public prosecutor may refer the matter to the sentence enforcement judge so that he can order a medical assessment to check whether the sentenced person still meets the criteria set o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 56-1-1

When, during a search in a place other than those mentioned in Article 56-1, a document mentioned in the second paragraph of the same Article is discovered 56-1, the person at whose premises these ope…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judgment

Article D45-2-5

Failure to comply with the one-month time limit provided for in 2° of Article D. 45-2-3 or the four-month period provided for in article D. 45-2-4 does not constitute a ground of nullity preventing th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 576

…e court which handed down the contested decision.It must be signed by the registrar and by the applicant for judicial review himself or by a lawyer before the court which gave the decision, or by a sp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R6152-502

Assistants may, with their agreement, be made available to a health cooperation group or a social and medico-social cooperation group of which their employing establishment is a member. This secondmen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R6152-501

The doctors, odontologists and pharmacists mentioned in 2° of article L. 6152-1 may be recruited as hospital assistants under the conditions defined by this section: 1° In public health establishments…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Disciplinary sanctions

Article L6241-5

Any failure by a doctor or pharmacist to provide the information provided for in articles L. 4113-9 and L. 4221-19 respectively , in the cases mentioned in article L. 6223-3, or to provide false infor…

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