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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-13

Contracts may be awarded in separate lots, unless their subject does not allow separate services to be identified. The National Council determines the number, size and purpose of the lots. It may limi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Expenditure by communes and groups of communes for municipal secondary and special education establishments (R).

Article D2321-16

Where a secondary or special education establishment, which was municipal on 1 January 1986, the date of transfer of responsibility, forms part of a school complex comprising one or more other establi…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 13: Conseiller prud'homme.

Article L2412-13

The fixed-term employment contract of a labour consultant may only be terminated before expiry of the term due to serious misconduct or unfitness for work certified by the occupational physician, or o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Formalities relating to the celebration of marriage

Article 165

The marriage will be celebrated publicly at a republican ceremony by the civil registrar of the commune in which one of the spouses, or one of their parents, has his or her domicile or residence on th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Formalities relating to the celebration of marriage

Article 169

The public prosecutor in whose district the marriage is to be celebrated may dispense, for serious reasons, with publication and any time limit or with the posting of the publication only.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Formalities relating to the celebration of marriage

Article 166

The publication ordered in article 63 will be made at the town hall of the place of marriage and at the town hall of the place where each of the future spouses has his or her domicile or, in the absen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Assessment of tax officials entrusted with certain criminal investigation duties

Article R15-33-29-13

An individual file concerning the activities of each tax services agent authorised to carry out judicial police missions is kept permanently at the public prosecutor's office of the Paris court of app…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial assistance

Article R5132-10-13-1

The recruitment of the people referred to in article L. 5132-6-1 on open-ended contracts by temporary work integration agencies entitles them to financial assistance, up to the number of integration p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Assessment of tax officials entrusted with certain criminal investigation duties

Article R15-33-29-16

The report drawn up by the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal is brought directly to the attention of the authorised tax official, who may submit comments in writing within a period of fif…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Private circles

Article 1655

Persons who, under cover of associations governed by the loi du 1er juillet 1901 or by the local law maintained in force in the Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle departments, serve meals, sell drinks fo…

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