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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Provisions relating to practitioners recruited in application of 3° of Article L. 6152-1

Article R6152-700

The provisions of this section shall remain applicable only to practitioners recruited in application of 3° of Article L. 6152-1 in service on the date of publication of Decree no. 2022-135 of 5 Febru…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
d: Special schemes for agriculture

Article 707 bis

…time Fishing Code, relating to the status of tenant farming and sharecropping, or by article L. 462-21 of the same code, relating to farm leases in the departments of Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martin…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Company management.

Article R622-7

In the event of the sale of an asset referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 622-8, the share of the price shall be remitted to the administrator or, failing that, to the judicial representat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Compensation for victims of injury resulting from contamination by the hepatitis C virus caused by a transfusion of blood products or an injection of blood-derived medicinal products

Article R1221-74

…nsation determined in accordance with the conditions set out in the third paragraph of Article L. 1221-14. The claimant will inform the Office, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, wh…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Special rules relating to real estate investment funds

Article L214-72

…ners, the name of the real estate investment trust or, where applicable, of a sub-fund of the trust may be validly substituted for that of all the co-owners.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Special provisions relating to co-insurance of certain group operations with insurance undertakings governed by the Social Security Code and the Mutual Code

Article L145-7

Without prejudice to the second paragraph of article L. 141-6 of the present code, cover shall continue in the event of the policyholder's safeguard, receivership or liquidation proceedings. In the ev…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Retirement.

Article L2123-30

Retirement pensions already liquidated and rights acquired before 30 March 1992 by elected municipal officials continue to be honoured by the institutions and bodies with which they have been constitu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-1

For the prosecution, investigation and trial of offences falling within the scope of article 706-72, the public prosecutor, the investigating division, the criminal court and the Paris assize court ha…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIV: Procedure applicable to breaches of automated data processing systems

Article 706-72-3

…the acts referred to him do not constitute one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-72 and do not fall within its jurisdiction on any other grounds, this judge shall declare that h…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised courts

Article 706-79-1

…e Court of Appeal, within whose jurisdiction there is a court with jurisdiction pursuant to Article 706-75, leads and coordinates, in consultation with the other public prosecutors in the inter-region…

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