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Showing 33613370 of 21318 articles for Art. Cass. crim. 13 November 1990

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R4113-26

…ains personal and entire, without prejudice to the application ofarticle 16 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R4381-25

…s personal and complete, without prejudice to the application of article 16 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The Board of Directors

Article R7345-8

…cial account are enforceable under the conditions set out in Title III of Decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012, as amended, relating to public budgetary and accounting management.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Implementation of financial penalties

Article R5312-3

…made enforceable under the conditions laid down in articles 112 to 124 of decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database

Article 706-56

…nt who have been found not criminally responsible under the articles 706-120, 706-125, 706-129, 706-133 ou 706-134.II.-Refusing to submit to the biological sample provided for in the first paragraph o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: General principles

Article L1130-1

…on and the identification of a person by genetic fingerprinting are subject to articles 16-10 to 16-13 of the Civil Code, in particular to the terms and conditions of consent by this person to such ex…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IX: Rehabilitation of convicted persons

Article 783

The pardon is either acquired ipso jure under the conditions provided for by Articles 133-13 et seq of the Criminal Code, or granted by the Investigating Chamber under the conditions provided for in t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions for storing documents.

Article R1131-20

…explanatory comments are kept by the medical biology analysis laboratories mentioned in article R. 1131-13 for a period of thirty years. In all cases, these results are archived in conditions of secur…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisional suspension.

Article R811-50

In the cases provided for in Article L. 811-13 the provisional suspension is ordered by the judicial court to which the matter has been referred either by the public prosecutor or by the president of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Payment

Article R6341-46

…ly with the attendance requirement determined under the conditions set out in 2° of article R. 6341-13 and unjustified absences from training sessions at the centre, in the case of open courses, are s…

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