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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-25

The appropriations allocated to expenditure for each financial year may not be used to pay expenditure for another financial year.However, expenditure committed but not mandated at the close of the fi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-31

The payment mandate must be issued in the name of the original creditor.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-38

The management account drawn up by the metropolitan authority's accounting officer is submitted to the chairman of the metropolitan authority's council to be attached to the administrative account, as…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-30

All money orders must be accompanied by documents relating to the method of payment of the expenditure under the conditions laid down by the decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 relating to public…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article D5217-35

The president of the council of the metropolis shall provide the accounting officer of the metropolis, duly recapitulated on an issue slip, with a copy in the form of all leases, contracts, judgments,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Procedure

Article R4234-13

Unless the provisions of article R. 4234-3 are applied, the complaint or application and the attached documents are communicated in their entirety to the parties in copy form. Where the volume, number…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Procedure

Article R4234-15

The president of the central or regional council on whose register the pharmacist is entered at the date on which the disciplinary proceedings are commenced or, failing this, the council on whose regi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Procedure

Article R4234-14

The parties shall be informed that they may be represented or assisted by a lawyer. However, pharmacists, whether they are plaintiffs, claimants or the subject of the proceedings, may be assisted eith…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Procedure

Article R4234-16

Where the complaint or submissions are inadmissible on grounds that can be remedied in the course of the proceedings, the court may reject them by noting the inadmissibility of its own motion until it…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Procedure

Article R4234-17

Articles R. 611-2 to R. 611-5 of the Code of Administrative Justice relating to the communication of pleadings and exhibits, the first paragraph of article R. 611-7 relating to the grounds raised ex o…

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