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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 5: Provisions specific to Mayotte

Article L831-10

In Mayotte, the public prosecutor may, in the course of the investigation or if no court has been seised or when the court seised has exhausted its jurisdiction without having ruled on the fate of the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Accounting

Article D5217-26

…and regulations in force, are recovered:1° Either by virtue of enforceable judgements or contracts;2° Or by virtue of revenue orders or tax rolls issued and made enforceable as far as the metropolis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Deconcentrated services

Article R8122-10

I.-In each inspection unit mentioned in 1° of article R. 8122-3, the labour inspection inspector carries out his duties on the territory of a section. When necessary, they may intervene in the rest of…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: DEFENCE OR SECURITY CONTRACTS AWARDED WITHOUT PRIOR ADVERTISING OR COMPETITION

Article R2322-10

The purchaser may, without prior advertising or competitive tendering, award a contract for the purchase of supplies on particularly advantageous terms, either to an economic operator who is definitiv…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-20

…e moral and material interests of tenants, owners and lessors of multi-family residential buildings may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in cases of intentional personal injury or destruct…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Sub-section 4: Tax in addition to registration duty or land registration tax.

Article L422-10

Article 1584 of the General Tax Code sets out the rules for the additional tax on registration duties or land registration tax levied on municipalities classified as seaside resorts, health resorts, c…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Budgets and accounts

Article D72-101-13

…on forecast are carried forward, under the conditions set out in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 72-101-10, the entries in the budget are justified by the production in the appendix of a sheet calc…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article R642-20

In the case provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 642-12, the assignee must inform the liquidator in advance of any planned disposal of an asset. He must also inform the court if the dispo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article L645-10

…icial representative or the person chosen on the basis of the first paragraph of II of article L. 812-2 or on the basis of III of the same article, the assigned judge refers the case back to the court…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Authorisation procedure applicable to the termination or transfer of the contract.

Article R4623-20

…h physician, to terminate a fixed-term employment contract in the cases provided for in article L. 4623-5-1 as well as the application to record the expiry of the contract in the case provided for in…

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