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Showing 59015910 of 59235 articles for Art. Cass. com. avis 1-12-2021 n° 20-15.164 FS-D

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article D571-4

…rvices implementing educational measures ordered by the judicial authority pursuant to l'ordonnance n° 45-174 du 2 février 1945relative à l'enfance délinquante or of articles 375 to 375-8 of the Civil…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The Interministerial Commission for the Recognition of the State of Natural Disaster

Article D125-3

The Interministerial Commission for the Recognition of the State of Natural Disaster provided for in II of article L. 125-1-1 issues a simple opinion on each communal request for recognition of the st…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Conditions for holding municipal office.

Article D2573-9

I. - The articles D. 2123-23-1 and D. 2123-23-2 and the articles D. 2123-25 to D. 2123-28 are applicable to the communes of French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II and III. II.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Mayotte Regional Health Agency

Article D1446-3

For the application in Mayotte of articles D. 1432-2 and D. 1432-7, the references to articles D. 1432-1 and D. 1432-6 are replaced by the reference to article D. 1446-2.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Accreditation of the quality of professional practice

Article D4135-2

Physicians or medical teams practising in health establishments providing obstetrics, obstetric ultrasound, intensive care or one of the following specialities may apply for accreditation: 1° General…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Contributions and equalisation of costs.

Article D5424-40

The decrees mentioned in article D. 5424-39 set each year the rates of contributions to be paid by companies and the amount of the reserve fund intended to ensure the reimbursement of bad weather dail…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Special conditions

Article D535

The decision granting a convicted offender the benefit of conditional release may make the granting of this measure subject to one of the following conditions:1° Having satisfied a test of semi-libert…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Implementation through the payment of an annual contribution

Article D5212-23

The deductible expenses referred to in Article L. 5212-11 relate to :1° Carrying out diagnostics and work to make the company's premises accessible to beneficiaries of the employment obligation ;2° Ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Placement outside prison, semi-liberty, electronic surveillance and temporary absences

Article D118

Independent of the cases in which they are extracted or transferred and the cases in which they are assigned to perform chores under the direct or constant supervision of staff, convicts may be outsid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tests to verify knowledge

Article D4221-7

The tests to verify the knowledge referred to in article L. 4221-12, which are written and anonymous, comprise, for pharmacy and, where appropriate, for medical biology : 1° A test of fundamental know…

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