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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Working conditions of the pharmacists or veterinary surgeons responsible and delegated.

Article R5142-17

The period of practical experience provided for in article R. 5142-16 is reduced : 1° To one year for professionals whose higher education was completed as part of a five-year programme ; 2° To six mo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-2

…t of a commission whose composition and operation are determined by decree in the Council of State, may be authorised to carry out judicial investigations at the request of the public prosecutor or on…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Injunctions, emergency measures and other measures

Article L621-13-1

I. - The Autorité des marchés financiers may appoint a provisional administrator for a person referred to in Article L. 543-1, to whom all powers of administration, management and representation of th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Persons acting as interns

Article R6153-41

…red to interns or residents, or if it has not been chosen, the director of the health establishment may, on the proposal of the head of the department or, failing this, the head of the service, of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6133-1

…s for hearing the representative of the member in respect of whom an exclusion measure is envisaged;16° The procedures for electing the director and his alternate, and the rules for the administration…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-17-1

…when exercising his jurisdiction pursuant to this section, the Counter-Terrorism Public Prosecutor may, by judicial delegation, request any public prosecutor to carry out or have carried out the acts…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The insurance certificate.

Article R211-17

…e term of the policy, establishing the presumption of insurance for the period it determines, which may not exceed one month. Any insurer who refuses to issue one of the supporting documents referred…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Conformity

Article R752-44

…b of 4° of I of the same article; e) Any other elements, intrinsic or related to the project, that may be expressly mentioned by the commercial development commission to justify its favourable opinio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Job security contract

Article L1233-66

…les and subject to the guarantees and penalties mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 5422-16. The conditions under which this contribution is payable are specified by decree in the Conseil d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER ONE

Article L2231-1

The mayor of a municipality or the president of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with a local urban development plan, an urban development document in its place or a communal map…

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