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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Energy

Article R4424-33

The consultation of the Assembly of Corsica referred to in 1° bis of article L. 4424-39 is carried out under the conditions laid down in article R. 423-56 of the town planning code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3 : Conditions for accreditation of practitioners performing pre-implantation diagnosis

Article R2131-40

Decisions relating to the accreditation of practitioners and the renewal, suspension and withdrawal of this accreditation are published in the Official Bulletin of the Ministry of Health. The Agence d…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Intercountry adoption, conflicts of law and the effect in France of adoptions granted abroad

Article 370-3

…may not be granted if his or her national law prohibits this institution, unless the minor was born and habitually resides in France.Whatever the applicable law, adoption requires the consent of the c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Other missions.

Article R1142-40

…ual report for which the Commission is responsible pursuant to the second paragraph of article L. 1142-10 is drawn up on the basis of information collected both from the commissions mentioned in artic…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Other missions.

Article R1142-41

For the application of articles R. 1142-38 to R. 1142-40, the Commission may ask the commissions mentioned in article L. 1142-5 and the Office for any information relating to their operation and activ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 7: Registration on the jobseekers' list

Article R5221-47

…st satisfy the conditions for registration set out in section 1 of chapter 1 of title 1 of book IV, and in particular those set out in articles R. 5411-2 and R. 5411-3 and in 5° of article R. 5411-6 r…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Special provisions for the declaration of appeal.

Article ANNEXE, art. 42

…s of the respondents at first instance.In the case provided for in the second paragraph of Article 930-1, the appellant shall deliver to the registry or send to it by registered letter with acknowledg…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 381

Fathers and mothers whose parental authority has been totally withdrawn or whose rights have been withdrawn for one of the reasons set out in articles 378 and 378-1 may, by petition, obtain from the c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 379

The total withdrawal of parental authority ordered under articles 378 and 378-1 carries by operation of law all attributes, both proprietary and personal, attached to parental authority; in the absenc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 378

…tal authority may be totally withdrawn by an express decision of the criminal judgment from fathers and mothers who are convicted, either as perpetrators, co-perpetrators or accomplices of a crime or…

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