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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Due diligence

Article D8254-6

…orising him or her to work as an employee in France by the co-contractor referred to in article D. 8254-2, shall ascertain from the person to whom this same article applies that the co-contractor has…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation

Article R6322-6

…r confirmation of authorisation in the event of transfer of operation as provided for in Article R. 6322-10.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 676

The owner of an unpartitioned wall, immediately adjoining the inheritance of another, may make in that wall days or windows with meshed iron and dead glass. Such windows shall be fitted with an iron l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 612

…tion refers the case back to the judges who must hear it and designates them. The Cour de cassation may annul only part of the decision where the nullity vitiates only one or some of these provisions.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 658

…ber, which shall rule on a request submitted by the public prosecutor or the parties. This decision may be appealed to the Supreme Court.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 643

…registry. However, before the document is deposited at the court registry, the examining magistrate may order that it be reproduced by photograph or by any other means..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 664

…eld in custody pursuant to a detention order or in execution of a conviction, the public prosecutor may, in the interests of the proper administration of justice, in particular to avoid the transfer o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 8: Payment to finance mobility services

Article L2333-64

…ised as being of public utility whose activity is of a social nature and intermediary associations, may be subject to a payment intended to finance mobility services when they employ at least eleven e…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 658

Any co-owner may have the party wall raised; but he alone must pay the expense of the raising and the maintenance repairs above the height of the common fence; he alone must also pay the maintenance c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII: Challenges

Article 670

…cation shall not relieve the judge whose disqualification is proposed. However, the First President may, after obtaining the opinion of the Public Prosecutor, order that either the continuation of the…

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