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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-405

Communications between operating theatres and hospital rooms must always be under cover and never take place in poorly sheltered corridors or in the open air. It must always be possible to transport a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medical health centres.

Article D6124-412

Any establishment with multi-bedded rooms must have at least two single rooms per 20 beds or fraction thereof.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medical health centres.

Article D6124-418

The children's section, for children over 18 or 24 months of age, is made up of single rooms accounting for at least two-fifths of the total number of beds, and rooms with between two and a maximum of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-406

Any establishment with multi-bedded rooms must have at least two single rooms per twenty beds or fraction thereof.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-407

Throughout the day, there should never be less than one care worker for every five beds.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 4: Cost control of contracts awarded by the State and its public establishments

Article L2196-4

…e or its public establishments for which the special nature of the techniques, the small number of candidates with the required skills, reasons of secrecy or reasons of imperative urgency or crisis do…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3

Article R421-44

…he guarantee fund comprise :Revenue :a) Proceeds from the contributions provided for in articles L. 421-4-1, L. 421-6-1, L. 421-8, L. 421-10 and L. 421-10-1 ;b) Recoveries from compensation debtors;c)…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3

Article R421-47

…nt expenditure to acquire the financial instruments referred to in article L. 211-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code and real estate assets. It invests all of its assets in accordance with the "prud…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 12: Funeral service contracts

Article L242-45

The penalties for offences relating to funeral contracts are set out in the provisions of the chapitre III du titre II du livre II de la deuxième partie du code général des collectivités territoriales…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exemptions

Article D5134-48

The amount of the exemption provided for in 1° of Article L. 5134-31 is equal to that of the employer's social security and family allowance contributions corresponding to the fraction of the remunera…

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