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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Employment contract

Article L812-1

The provisions of articles L. 129-5 to L. 129-12 apply in the overseas departments and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon when the universal employment-service voucher is in the nature of a special payment vouc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Criminal provisions

Article R8282-1

Any project owner or client who is informed by an agent mentioned in article L. 8271-1-2 of an infringement by the employer of one of the legal provisions or contractual stipulations listed in article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXI bis: Protection of persons benefiting from exemptions or reductions in penalties for having prevented the commission of offences, for having stopped or mitigated the damage caused by an offence, or for having identified the perpetrators or accomplices of offences

Article 706-63-1

The persons mentioned in Article 132-78 of the Penal Code shall, where necessary, be subject to protection designed to ensure their safety. They may also benefit from measures designed to ensure their…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Rights increases

Article 1757

…quater B, the duties recalled and the tax credits to be repaid pursuant to II and III of Article 83 bis, of III of l'article 160 A, of article 220 quater A and the second paragraph of II of article 72…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II

Article L3232-7-1

In local authorities governed byArticle 73 of the French Constitution, as well as in Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, primary schools organise awareness-raising sessions fo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Objections of lis pendens and connexity.

Article 100

If the same dispute is pending before two courts of the same level equally competent to hear it, the court second seised must decline jurisdiction in favour of the other if one of the parties so reque…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Objections of lis pendens and connexity.

Article 101

If there is such a connection between cases brought before two separate courts that it is in the interests of good justice to have them heard and determined together, one of those courts may be asked…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Objections of lis pendens and connexity.

Article 106

In the event that the two courts have declined jurisdiction, the later decision shall be considered null and void.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Objections of lis pendens and connexity.

Article 102

Where the courts seised are not of the same level, a plea of lis pendens or connexity may only be raised before the court of the lower level.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Objections of lis pendens and connexity.

Article 105

A decision on the plea either by the court seised of it or following an appeal shall be binding both on the referring court and on the court whose dismissal is ordered.

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