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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Health protection and the environment

Article D1513-2

Article D. 1332-22, the second and third paragraphs of article D. 1332-27 and article D. 1332-30 come into force in Mayotte on 31 December 2019.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consumer mediation assessment and monitoring committee

Article R615-3

…f the commission may be reimbursed for their travel expenses under the conditions set by the décret n° 2006-781 du 3 juillet 2006 fixant les conditions et les modalités de règlement des frais occasion…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Residential and business premises

Article 1496 bis

…cluded in the area of competence 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 resid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIIa: The national platform for judicial interception

Article R40-55

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article 111 de la loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 modififiée relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés, l'accès aux données mentionnées à l'articl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Issuance of Bulletin No. 2 of the Criminal Record

Article R81

…f the information provided for in Article 769 is reproduced on bulletin no. 2. If not, the bulletin n° 2 is marked "nil". If the request for bulletin no. 2 comes from the central authority of a Member…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Green Spaces Agency.

Article R4413-8

…ravel and subsistence allowances calculated in accordance with the conditions set out in the décret n° 2006-781 du 3 juillet 2006 fixant les conditions et les modalités de règlement des frais occasion…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article D5211-5

…his same article L. 5211-13. Transport costs are covered under the conditions defined by the décret n° 2006-781 du 3 juillet 2006 fixant les conditions et les modalités de règlement des frais occasion…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-10

…r, made after obtaining the opinion of the authorities referred to in l'article 1er de l'ordonnance n° 45-2717 du 2 novembre 1945, may only intervene in cases where the mention "died for France" shoul…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative organisation (R)

Article R2221-10

…based on supporting documents, under the conditions defined by articles 9, 10 and 31 of the décret n°90-437 du 28 mai 1990 fixant les conditions et les modalités de règlement des frais occasionnés pa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Revenue

Article L6364-5

…the lycée on Saint-Martin and by the Guadeloupe department to the collèges on Saint-Martin between 1997 and 2006 inclusive; this amount incorporates indexation following the application of the growth…

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