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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Medical professions.

Article L4441-6

For its application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, Article L. 4124-2 reads as follows: "Art. L. 4124-2. - Doctors entrusted with a public service and registered on the register of New Caledoni…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Mission, conditions of access and exercise and incompatibilities.

Article L811-6

The national commission, on its own initiative or at the request of the Minister of Justice, the President of the Conseil national des administrateurs judiciaires et des mandataires judiciaires, the G…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Adoption and implementation of budgets

Article L1612-6

However, for the application of article L. 1612-5, a budget whose operating section includes or recovers a surplus and whose investment section is in real balance, after recovery for each of the secti…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 10: Revolving credit

Article L312-65

In addition to the compulsory information set out in article L. 312-28, the credit agreement stipulates that each instalment must include a minimum repayment of the capital borrowed, which varies acco…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

Article L912-6

In VI of article L. 225-270, the words: "the provisions of Article 94 A of the General Tax Code" are replaced by the words: "the provisions of the locally applicable tax code relating to net capital g…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L8256-6

Any foreigner guilty of the offences defined in article L. 8256-2 may be banned from French territory for up to ten years or permanently, in accordance with the conditions set out in articles 131-30 t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1248-6

Failure to draw up a fixed-term employment contract in writing and to include a precise definition of the reason for the contract, in breach of the first paragraph of article L. 1242-12, is punishable…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: MEASURES FOLLOWING CONTROLS

Article L522-6

The decision handed down by the administrative authority responsible for competition and consumer affairs may be published at the expense of the person penalised. The administrative authority shall in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: POWERS OF THE TERRITORIAL TERRITORIAL COLLECTIVITY OF FRENCH GUYANA

Article L7153-6

The territorial collectivity of French Guyana may, with the agreement of the authorities of the Republic, be an associate member of the regional bodies mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 7…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions applicable to tourist offices set up as public industrial and commercial establishments

Article L133-6

…he Tourist Office under the authority of the President. He or she is appointed under the conditions laid down by decree. He may not be a local councillor. Their appointment and dismissal are decided b…

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