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Showing 501510 of 35399 articles for Art. Cass. com. 30-5-1995 n° 1107 D

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Health mediation and language interpreting

Article D1110-5

Health mediation refers to the interface between vulnerable people who are alienated from the healthcare system and the professionals involved in their healthcare pathway, with the aim of facilitating…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Sale of a business.

Article D141-5

The employee shall inform the operator as soon as possible and by any means when he is assisted in accordance with the articles L. 141-24 et L. 141-29. The person assisting the employee is bound by an…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Specific provisions for public transport companies and commercial vehicle hire companies.

Article D144-5

Transactions for the purpose of adapting the lessee's rights to the useful load of his fleet of vehicles where the total transport capacity thus obtained by the lessee is less than the useful load of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Equity securities.

Article D228-56

When the body of holders provided for in article L. 228-37 is made up of holders of securities issued by a State-owned industrial and commercial public establishment subject to public accounting rules…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Personalised assessment and protective measures

Article D1-5

Subject to the needs of the investigation, the authority conducting the interview with the victim: 1° Receives the victim's complaint as soon as possible; 2° Conducts further interviews with the victi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1b: Protection of the identity of certain officials involved in criminal proceedings

Article D8-5

The authorisations provided for in I of Article 15-4 are issued to customs officers authorised to carry out judicial investigations pursuant to article 28-1 by the magistrate delegated to the judicial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Measures prior to placing under house arrest with electronic surveillance

Article D32-5

Where the place of assignment to be designated is not the home of the person under investigation, the written agreement of either the owner or the holder(s) of the lease for the premises where the rec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Specific powers of the President of the Investigating Chamber

Article D43-5

In accordance with articles 41-4,41-6,99,706-153 et 778, the president of the investigating chamber has sole jurisdiction to rule on applications or appeals or disputes relating to:-to the restitution…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Citations and meanings

Article D46-5

The provisions of the second paragraph of Article 559-1 allowing the public prosecutor to extend the time limit for service of a decision to up to three months shall also apply to service issued at th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Applicable charges

Article D133-5

For the purposes of II of Article L. 133-26, a payment incident is any rejection of a payment order received by the payer's payment service provider due to a lack of funds or insufficient funds, regar…

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