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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2a: Provisions relating to local fire and rescue services

Article L1424-36-5

Municipalities and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation are competent to build, acquire or lease the property necessary for the operation of the first response centres of the local fir…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L214-55-1

Prior to their appointment, all external valuation experts shall inform the open-ended real estate investment company or the fund management company whether or not they have taken out an insurance pol…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Mobility leave

Article L1237-18-5

The administrative authority of the place where the company concerned by the agreement on forward-looking management of jobs and skills is established is informed by the employer of terminations under…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4a: Temporary open-ended employment contract

Article L1251-58-1

A temporary work agency may conclude an open-ended contract with an employee for the performance of successive assignments. Each assignment gives rise to: 1° The conclusion of a secondment contract be…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Protection.

Article L4623-5-2

A fixed-term employment contract may only be terminated once the labour inspector has established that the termination is not related to the performance of the occupational physician's duties and does…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Protection.

Article L4623-5-3

The transfer of an occupational health physician included in a partial transfer of a prevention and occupational health service by application of article L. 1224-1 may only take place after authorisat…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Legal status of medical devices.

Article L5211-5-1

I.-The criteria for classifying a situation as a risk in the management of a patient's state of health due to the unavailability of a medical device shall be laid down by regulation.The manufacturers…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Taxes, levies and other income allocated to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image)

Article L116-5

The following are allocated to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée :1° Proceeds from the reimbursement of advances on receipts granted before 1 January 1996 for the production of cinema…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 6: Master and feeder general purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-58

The feeder general-purpose investment fund shall enter into an information exchange agreement with the master AIF or UCITS. However, this agreement may be replaced by internal conduct of business rule…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-5

Every person has the right, in the light of his state of health and the urgency of the interventions that this requires, to receive, throughout the territory, the most appropriate treatment and care a…

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