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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Toilet cubicles

Article R4228-13

The floor and walls of toilets must be made of impermeable materials to enable effective cleaning. The employer shall ensure that toilets and urinals are cleaned and disinfected at least once a day.

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Ordinary procedure

Article R121-13

The judge ensures that sufficient time has elapsed between the summons or writ of summons and the hearing to allow the defendant to prepare his defence.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-138

Where a person has been struck off automatically pursuant to this section, he or she may, provided that he or she shows that he or she has regularised his or her situation, ask the Registrar to report…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-131

Any legal entity is automatically struck off the register, after a notice of its dissolution has been entered in the register, at the end of the period set by the Articles of Association for the durat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-137

Any automatic registration made on the basis of information that proves to be incorrect shall be reported by the Registrar.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-130

When the registrar who carried out the main registration of a legal entity that may be subject to dissolution notes, after a period of two years following the entry in the register of the total cessat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-132

The registrar who deregisters a registration shall require without delay: 1° If it concerns a principal registration, the deregistration of the corresponding secondary registrations, except in the cas…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Judicial police officers

Article R15-13

After the presentation of the report by the magistrate in charge, the judicial police officer may call witnesses whose names and addresses must have been given to the secretariat of the commission at…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Professional rules

Article R1132-13

The genetic counsellor helps each person who consults him or her with the same conscience and without discrimination, whatever feelings he or she may have towards that person, and without seeking to e…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 15: Work involving the risk of drowning.

Article R4534-136

Where workers are exposed to the risk of drowning, the employer shall, in addition to the safety measures prescribed by this chapter, take the following special protection measures: 1° Workers exposed…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
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