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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Prohibition on returning to French territory

Article L612-7

…voluntary departure, the administrative authority issues a re-entry ban. Humanitarian circumstances may, however, justify the administrative authority not issuing a prohibition on return.The effects o…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Prohibition on returning to French territory

Article L612-8

…l is not in a situation referred to in articles L. 612-6 and L. 612-7, the administrative authority may attach to the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory a prohibition on returni…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Prohibition on returning to French territory

Article L612-10

…in article L. 612-8 as well as to the extension of the re-entry ban provided for in article L. 612-11.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: House arrest where removal is deferred

Article L731-4

The administrative authority may place foreign nationals subject to an unenforced expulsion order under house arrest if their state of health requires medical care, the lack of which could have except…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: House arrest where removal is deferred

Article L731-3

The administrative authority may authorise a foreign national who proves that it is impossible to leave French territory or that he/she is unable to return to his/her country of origin or to go to any…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: House arrest where removal is deferred

Article L731-5

The administrative authority may, as a probationary and exceptional measure, place under house arrest a foreign national who is the subject of an expulsion decision issued pursuant to article L. 631-2…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Residential and business premises

Article 1496 bis

…mpetence of a community development syndicate created in application of loi n° 70-610 du 10 juillet 1970, may decide, by a deliberation taken before 1 July 1986, that all residential premises and prem…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General safety obligation

Article L421-7

…rence is published in the Official Journal of the European Union pursuant to article 4 of Directive 2001/95/EC of 3 December 2001 on general product safety; 2° Other French standards; 3° European Comm…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Operation of the Board of Directors (R)

Article R1424-17

…tors are taken by an absolute majority of the votes cast, subject to the provisions of article L. 1424-29. The chairman has the casting vote in the event of a tie.The enactment of these deliberations…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Economic aid

Article R2251-2

Municipalities or their groupings may award operating grants to the local structures of representative trade union organisations which have legal personality and which fulfil missions of general inter…

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