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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Calculation and payment procedures.

Article L5422-8

…workers involuntarily deprived of employment who leave France to settle in their country of origin may, at their request, continue to receive the insurance allowance. The replacement income is then p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 11: Instruments reserved for small-value payments

Article L133-28

…ed for small-value payments. II. - For the instruments mentioned in I, the payment service provider may agree with the payer that : 1° The payer may not revoke the payment order after having transmitt…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Information provided by the promoter

Article R1123-70

…medicinal product; 3° Where applicable, the investigator's brochure referred to in article R. 1123-20 ; 4° Where applicable, the elements of the research protocol relevant to the possession, preparat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Substitution of the user for the modelling agency in the event of insufficient security

Article R7123-38

…user is substituted for the modelling agency for the payment of the sums defined in article R. 7123-20 which remain due by the agency in respect of the services provided by the models on behalf of thi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific rules for negotiating unemployment insurance agreements

Article L5424-23

…employers' or employees' organisation representing all the professions mentioned in article L. 5424-20. Such a request for assessment may also be submitted to it by a professional employers' organisat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article D11

When acting as part of a flagrante delicto or preliminary investigation, judicial police officers may relate in a single report the operations carried out during the same investigation. If several jud…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Aid for medical students

Article D1511-52

…ccordance with article L. 162-47 of the Social Security Code, local authorities and their groupings may grant, alone or jointly, the housing allowance provided for in I of article L. 1511-8 of this co…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-12

Investigating and sentencing courts may, as an alternative measure to pre-trial detention, impose house arrest with electronic surveillance in the cases provided for by articles 135-2, 145, 148, 201,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-2

…of the obligations set out in Articles L. 1233-57-9 to L. 1233-57-16, L. 1233-57-19 and L. 1233-57-20.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Clinical activities involving medically assisted procreation

Article R2142-25

…n of the date and place of the joint declaration made by the couple in accordance with articles 311-20 of the Civil Code and 1157-2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

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