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Showing 24812490 of 48231 articles for Art. Cass. com. 26 April 1984 · Cass. com. 4 May 1982 · CA Grenoble 21 December 2006

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Stability of the financial system

Article L733-4

…provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the ad…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Stability of the financial system

Article L734-4

I.- Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptation provisions provided for in II and III, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table belo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Preparations containing several poisonous substances.

Article R5132-41

The provisions of article R. 5132-40 are applicable to the salts and esters of these substances as well as to compositions containing these substances, their salts or their esters in any form whatsoev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Preparations containing several poisonous substances.

Article R5132-40

…tion and the incorporation in the same preparation of poisonous substances appearing on the classification list in Annex 51-1 and belonging to different groups are prohibited.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Former status of contractual practitioners

Article R6152-400

The provisions of this section remain applicable only to contractual practitioners in post on the date of publication of Decree no. 2022-135 of 5 February 2022 relating to the new rules applicable to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: State financial assistance

Article L3662-4

I. - The metropolis of Lyon benefits from: 1° An allocation under the global operating allocation for public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation, calculated in accordance with the procedures…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 47

…rds or documents held, external data or elements drawn from the record itself establish, where applicable after all useful checks, that this record is irregular, falsified or that the facts declared t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Vacancy of guardianship

Article 411

Guardianship is declared vacant if it is impossible to set up guardianship with a family council or to admit the child as a ward of the State. In this case, the guardianship judge refers it to the pub…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Management procedures

Article 499

Third parties may inform the judge of acts or omissions by the tutor which appear to them to be prejudicial to the interests of the protected person. They are not guarantors of the use of the capital.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 485

…civil convictions. The judgment is read out by the president or by one of the judges; this reading may be limited to the operative part. In the case provided for in the first paragraph of article 398…

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