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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Hospital duties for pharmacy students.

Article R6153-89

The director of the institution to which the student is assigned may exclude a student whose behaviour is incompatible with the smooth running and continuity of the department. He shall immediately in…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exclusions from financial assistance

Article 122-8

Financial assistance from the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may not be granted for or in respect of cinematographic, audiovisual or multimedia works whose content is intended to promo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-8

When the court ruling on civil interests has awarded damages in an amount greater than the compensation awarded by the commission, the victim may request additional compensation. He or she must submit…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Distribution of funds outside of enforcement proceedings.

Article 1281-8

In the absence of conciliation, the person in charge of distribution shall record the points of disagreement.The sums put into distribution shall be immediately deposited, if they are not already depo…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Commitments giving rise to a diversification provision

Article R134-8

Notwithstanding articles R. 343-9 and R. 343-10, the assets relating to commitments allocated to a subsidiary allocation account mentioned in article L. 134-2 are recorded in the allocation balance sh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article R2336-8

The portions of the envelope calculated under the conditions set out in article R. 2336-7 accruing to the communes of the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and to the territorial co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Administrative, accounting and financial management of the personal training account

Article R6333-8

The three-year agreement on objectives and performance referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 6333-5 defines the strategic, operational and performance objectives of the Caisse des dépôts et…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Consistency between the data of the medical device or in vitro diagnostic medical device and the result of the medical biology examination

Article D6211-8

For the purposes of Article L. 6211-12, the result of the measurement of a test requiring a medical device or an in vitro diagnostic medical device is said to be consistent with the result of the corr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article D6523-14-6

For its application in Mayotte, a paragraph has been added to article D. 6341-24-5to read as follows : Persons attending a training course run by the prison administration as part of the remuneration…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations.

Article D452-8

Approval may be withdrawn, after consultation with the public prosecutor and the Autorité des marchés financiers, if the association no longer meets one of the conditions for approval. The association…

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