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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2018

…ty: 1° The assets, rights or securities transferred. If they are future, they must be determinable; 2° The duration of the transfer, which may not exceed ninety-nine years from the signing of the cont…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-21

In view of the request made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 495-18 or the complaint made pursuant to the second paragraph of article 495-19, the public prosecutor may either waive prosecuti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-9

…d, fails, without legitimate reason, to attend the adversarial hearing provided for by the articles 712-6 or 712-7, the sentence enforcement judge or the sentence enforcement court may rule in his abs…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Worker monitoring and individual health monitoring

Article R4452-23

…sheet for these workers containing the following information: 1° The nature of the work performed; 2° The characteristics of the emitting sources to which the worker is exposed; 3° The nature of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common rules

Article R519-20

…the means of verifying this registration. The intermediaries referred to in 4° of I of article R. 519-4 must also indicate the name or corporate name, business address or registered office address and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Cooperation with the Commission de Régulation de l'Energie and the bodies responsible for physical agricultural markets

Article L621-21

I. - The Autorité des marchés financiers and the Commission de régulation de l'énergie shall cooperate with each other. They shall provide each other with any information that may be useful for the pe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 21

…s in the active services of the national police who do not meet the conditions laid down by article 20; 1° bis Volunteers serving as military personnel in the gendarmerie and military personnel servin…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to elections to the various disciplinary boards and chambers

Article R4125-20

…nce with the procedures laid down by the electoral regulations to allocate the members mentioned in 2° of articles R. 4122-5 and R. 4124-4 to each half. Subsequent renewals of the Disciplinary Boards…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions

Article D6124-200

…n from I, if the doctor is unavailable or if the urgency of the situation justifies it, the patient may be cared for without the agreement of the attending doctor, or the doctor designated by the pati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Establishment and liquidation of claims.

Article L3253-20

…or in part from the available funds before the expiry of the time limits provided for in Article L. 3253-19, the judicial representative shall request, upon presentation of the statements, the advance…

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