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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Opposition to the hiring of apprentices.

Article L6225-1

The administrative authority may object to the hiring of apprentices by a company if it is established by the authorities responsible for supervising the performance of the apprenticeship contract tha…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: One-off assistance for apprentice employers

Article L6243-1

Apprenticeship contracts concluded in companies with fewer than two hundred and fifty employees in order to prepare for a vocational diploma or qualification equivalent at most to the baccalaureate ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Trade union rights and representativeness criteria

Article L6156-1

The right to organise is guaranteed to the medical, odontological and pharmaceutical staff of the public health establishments mentioned in Chapters I and II of this Title. The interested parties may…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Property and undivided rights between several communes

Article L5222-1

Where several communes own undivided property or rights, a legal entity governed by public law shall be created for their management and for the management of the related public services, administered…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Relations between lessors and lessees of buildings used for the hotel trade

Article L311-1

The owner of a building in which a hotel is operated may not, notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary, object to the execution of works of equipment and improvement that the lessee, the owner…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article L326-12

In the event of the dissolution of an undertaking referred to in 2° or 3° of Article L. 310-1 following a decision by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution taken pursuant to Articles L.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Use of funds by skills operators to pay for work-linked training, personal training accounts and skills development for companies with fewer than fifty employees

Article L6332-17

Under the financial section mentioned in 2° of Article L. 6332-3 relating to actions contributing to the development of skills for the benefit of companies with fewer than fifty employees: 1° The cost…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Operating conditions

Article L5125-11

…any must own the pharmacy of which he is the proprietor.A pharmacist or company may own or co-own only one dispensary.Pharmacists are authorised to form a general partnership between themselves for th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 8: Sales or provision of services with premiums

Article L121-19

Any sale or offer to sell products or goods or any provision or offer to provide services made to consumers entitling them, free of charge, immediately or in the future, to a premium consisting of pro…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article L1524-1

For the application of Article L. 1221-22 in Mayotte, the second paragraph is replaced by a paragraph worded as follows: "longer periods set by collective branch agreements concluded before 1 January…

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