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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Associate midwives

Article R6152-543

The following may be recruited as associate midwives: 1° Candidates for authorisation to practise the profession of midwife defined in I of article L. 4111-2, who have passed the knowledge verificatio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure before the liberty and custody judge

Article R3211-41

I.-When the judge decides to hold a hearing in application of the provisions of the penultimate paragraph of III of Article L. 3211-12-2, the patient who is the subject of a seclusion or restraint mea…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 decies G

I.-Small and medium-sized non-road diesel retail businesses that, as at 1 January 2020, do not have facilities for storing and distributing diesel that is not coloured and traced, subject to corporati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 289

If any of the jurors present do not meet the legal aptitude conditions required by articles 255,256 and 257, the court shall order that their names be struck from the list and sent to the first presid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 292

Any judgment modifying the composition of the session list drawn up in accordance with Article 266 shall be brought to the attention of the accused by the court clerk, without formality. The accused o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 289-1

If, because of absences or following striking off by the court, there remain, on the session list, fewer than twenty jurors or, when during the session the assize court must rule on an appeal, fewer t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 291

Before the judgment in each case, the court shall, if necessary, carry out the operations provided for in articles 288, 289 and 289-1. The court also orders that the names of the spouses, parents and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 290

All of the court's decisions are set out in a reasoned judgment, after the public prosecutor has been heard. This judgment may only be challenged by way of an appeal in cassation at the same time as t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Revision of the jury list

Article 288

At the place, day and time fixed for the opening of the session, the court shall sit.The clerk shall call the jurors entered on the list drawn up in accordance with article 266.The court shall rule on…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional and nuclear risks.

Article L431-7

A separate account opened in the caisse's books records all the insurance and reinsurance transactions referred to in Articles L. 431-4 and L. 431-5.

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