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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-30

When the biological samples taken during a judicial autopsy are no longer necessary to establish the truth, the competent judicial authority may order their destruction. Destruction is carried out in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedure for compensation by substitution of the Office.

Article R1142-61

If the insurer has not made an offer of compensation by the end of the four-month period available to it, in accordance with article L. 1142-14, the victim or his heirs may submit a claim to the Offic…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification of concentrations and granting of authorisation

Article R331-23

The declaration of a meeting must be made to the prefect of the département where the meeting is to be held or to the police prefect if the meeting is to take place on the airfields of Paris-Charles d…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 4: The National Safety Commission for Sports Venues

Article R312-23

The owner of the sports stadium concerned, or his representative, if this owner is not the municipality whose mayor is vested with the power of municipal policing over this sports stadium, attends mee…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Purpose and conditions of award

Article 411-61

To be eligible for support for the creation of original music, authors must have created musical compositions for works for which post-production support is granted.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Allocation de professionnalisation et de solidarité et allocation de fin de droits.

Article D5424-61

Payment of the end-of-rights allowance will cease definitively for the same entitlement if the beneficiary can prove that he/she meets the conditions for entitlement to unemployment insurance benefit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Recording and fixing images in public places using airborne devices

Article 230-51

The technical device is set up by the judicial police officer assigned by the investigating judge or requested by the public prosecutor or, under his responsibility, by the judicial police officer.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-31

The procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter shall be specified by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Clarifying the encrypted data needed to establish the truth

Article 230-4

Decisions taken pursuant to this chapter shall not be of a judicial nature and shall not be subject to appeal.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special import provisions.

Article 23 bis

Subject to the application of international agreements, the import of foodstuffs, materials and products of all kinds and origins which do not comply with the legislative or regulatory obligations imp…

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