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French Tourism CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Tourist residences

Article L321-5

…area within the meaning ofarticle 3 of law no. 85-30 of 9 January 1985 relating to the development and protection of mountain areas, may transfer the right conferred byarticle L. 145-46-1 of the Fren…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Funeral operations

Article R1261-5

Apart from the situations provided for in III and IV of article R. 1261-18, the medical teaching and research activities organised within the body reception structure of the establishment authorised i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health nurseries.

Article R2324-5

A health nursery may only be managed by a person aged between twenty-five and sixty-five. This person must be a doctor or nursery nurse. They must have practised this profession for at least five year…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Operating conditions.

Article R4644-5

…d occupational risk prevention adviser has access to all non-nominative documents required by this part. This right of access is exercised under conditions which guarantee the confidential nature of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: The gender equality and anti-discrimination officer and the safety and security officer

Article D1424-20-5

The safety and security referent carries out the following tasks: 1° Providing information and carrying out awareness-raising actions for staff and volunteer firefighters, as well as monitoring traini…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Withdrawal of assignment to certain works

Article L4733-5

When all measures have been taken to put an end to the situation of serious and imminent danger which gave rise to the withdrawal decision provided for in article L. 4733-3, the employer or the head o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Health rules applicable to swimming pools

Article D1332-5

…Article D. 1332-1 comply with the rules relating to the operation of the pool, hydraulic management and treatment of the pool water, as well as the requirements relating to the number of sanitary faci…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II

Article L3232-5

…or the final consumer distributed in the collectivities mentioned in Article 73 of the Constitution and in the collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon may have a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Financial provisions

Article L5722-5

As an exception to the provisions of the second paragraph of article L. 2333-81 and if no local authority concerned objects, when a mixed syndicate, existing or created for this purpose, has been give…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to breastfeeding

Article R1225-5

…yee to breastfeed her child is divided into two thirty-minute periods, one during the morning shift and the other during the afternoon shift. The period when work is stopped for breastfeeding is deter…

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