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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

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 Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Life mortgage and transfer advance loan

Article L315-15

…rty is equal to the value indicated in the deed of sale subject to the provisions of article L. 315-21.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial provisions

Article R5211-6

…cipal cooperation which have introduced the tourist tax under the conditions set out in article L. 5211-21. For the application of these provisions: 1° The reference to the municipal council is replac…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals

Article R743-16

The decision declaring the appeal inadmissible in the case provided for in article R. 743-14 or rejecting the statement of appeal in the case provided for in article R. 743-15 shall be handed down by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Investigations

Article D15-5-7

If a person of full age is taken into police custody, the officer or agent of the judicial police shall ask whether he or she is the subject of a legal protection measure, in order to implement the pr…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 3: Researchers

Article L421-15

…o has been admitted to another Member State of the European Union in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the conditions of entry and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Judgment on liability

Article L1143-2

…users of the healthcare system. The commencement of the action is not subject to Article 64 of Law 2016-1547 of 18 November 2016 on the modernisation of justice in the 21st century or to Article L. 7…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 804

This Code is applicable, in its wording resulting from Law No. 2023-703 of 1 August 2023 relating to military programming for the years 2024 to 2030 and containing various provisions concerning defenc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Medical devices and other products and articles regulated in the interests of public health.

Article L5522-1

…t shall apply to Wallis and Futuna, subject to the adaptations defined in this chapter.Articles L. 5211-1 to L. 5211-3-2, L. 5211-6, L. 5212-1, L. 5212-2, L. 5212-2-1, L. 5212-3, L. 5213-1 to L. 5213-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Other service providers

Article L773-36

…hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 546-1 Ordinance no. 2021-1735 of 22 December 2021 L. 546-2 and L. 546-3 Act no. 2010-1249 of 22 October 2010 L. 546-…

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