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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Special provisions for certain activities

Article R4424-10

…ratories that do not work with these agents adopt at least the containment level required for group 2 agents and, if necessary, that corresponding to group 3 or 4 agents.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Place of taxation

Article 10

…wning property there, without having their tax domicile there, as well as the persons designated in 2 of article 4 B are taxable at the place determined by joint order of the ministers responsible for…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R355-10

…aking will be unable to submit a realistic short-term financing plan as referred to in Article L. 352-8 or that the Authority does not obtain such a plan within one month of the date on which the devi…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIa : Changing the sex indication in civil status records

Article 1055-5

…be brought: 1° Either before the court within whose jurisdiction the person concerned resides; >or 2° Or before the court within whose jurisdiction the birth certificate of the person concerned was d…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Amendment of ancillary measures

Article 1084

…e divorce has become res judicata, to applications relating to compensatory allowance. The articles 1075-1 and 1075-2 of this code shall apply.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Rates for local tax on outdoor advertising

Article L2333-10

…public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system or the Lyon metropolis may, by a deliberation taken before 1st July of the year preceding that of the taxation:- set all or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Doors and gates

Article R4224-10

The transparent parts are made of safety materials or protected against denting so that workers cannot be injured if these surfaces break.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Protection of the account holder

Article L211-10

…eceivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings against an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3, the court-appointed administrator or liquidator, together with the provisional administrator…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Construction. Housing

Article 1052

I. - Subject to the provisions of I of l'article 827 (1), the deeds required for the constitution and dissolution of low-cost housing bodies as defined in Book IV of the Construction and Housing Code…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Increase in deadlines.

Article 1023

The time limits set out in articles 978 and 989 sont augmentés de : 1° One month if the applicant lives in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, S…

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