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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 12: Associate practitioners.

Article R6152-635

The following may also be recruited as associate practitioners, without the conditions of diploma, qualification and training mentioned in the first paragraph of article R. 6152-632 being imposed on t…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Director or deputy director of a national reference centre for communicable diseases

Article R6213-5

…Health may, after obtaining the opinion of the committee referred to in article L. 6213-12, in its formation provided for in article R. 6213-19, individually authorise the persons referred to in 3° o…

AI translation · Updated 30 Oct 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Integration companies.

Article L5132-5

…particular social and professional difficulties, in application of article L. 1242-3. During the performance of these contracts, one or more agreements concluded pursuant to article L. 5135-4 may prov…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Internal organisation.

Article L6146-1

…6151-1 and in 1°, 2° and 3° of article L. 6152-1, as well as army practitioners, are eligible to perform the duties of head of clinical or medico-technical unit.The Director signs a cluster contract w…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-8

When the formalities provided for in Article 171-2 have been complied with and the marriage has been celebrated in the forms customary in the country, it shall be entered in the civil status registers…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Civil status documents concerning soldiers and sailors in certain special cases.

Article 96-1

…f the future spouse is deceased, on condition that consent to the marriage has been recorded in the forms below: 1° On the national territory, the consent to the marriage of the future spouse is estab…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 459

…condition allows.Where the condition of the protected person does not allow him or her to make an informed personal decision alone, the judge or the family council, if it has been constituted, may pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-3

…ent and whose statutory purpose includes defending or assisting children at risk and victims of all forms of abuse may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in respect of intentional attacks on…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 145-4

…owers of the investigating judge shall be exercised by the public prosecutor in accordance with the forms and conditions laid down in this article. The same applies in all other cases where a person i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 183

…he court clerk of the nature and date of the diligence made pursuant to this article as well as the forms used.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
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