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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Breaches of the rules concerning the design, manufacture and marketing of work equipment and personal protective equipment

Article R4755-1

…een disregarded by an economic operator mentioned in article L. 4755-3, he shall send the market surveillance authority that initiated the said measure a report on the basis of which the latter may de…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Breaches of the rules concerning the design, manufacture and marketing of work equipment and personal protective equipment

Article R4755-3

The fine is paid to and recovered by the public accountant responsible for the revenue. The limitation period for action to recover this debt is five years from the date of notification of the collect…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 194

No one may claim the title of spouse and the civil effects of marriage unless he or she represents an act of celebration recorded in the civil status register; except in the cases provided for in Arti…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV bis: Conflict of laws rules

Article 202-1

The qualities and conditions required to be able to contract marriage are governed, for each of the spouses, by their personal law. Whatever the applicable personal law, marriage requires the consent…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 192

…rriage has not been preceded by the required publication or if the dispensations permitted by law have not been obtained, or if the prescribed intervals between the publications and the celebration ha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 201

A marriage which has been declared null shall, nevertheless, produce its effects in respect of the spouses, where it was contracted in good faith. If good faith exists only on the part of one of the s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 190

The public prosecutor, in all cases to which article 184, may and must request the nullity of the marriage, during the lifetime of both spouses, and have them ordered to separate.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 182

A marriage contracted without the consent of the father and mother, the ascendants, or the family council, in cases where such consent was necessary, may be contested only by those whose consent was r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 191

Any marriage which has not been contracted publicly, and which has not been celebrated before the competent public officer, may be contested, within a period of thirty years from its celebration, by t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 193

…imposed by the preceding article will be incurred by the persons designated therein, for any contravention of the rules prescribed by article 165, even if such contraventions are not deemed sufficien…

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