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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R6153-1-22

Junior doctors authorised to practise medicine, pharmacy or dentistry in a public health establishment on a temporary basis are recruited under a public law contract. They may only be recruited in the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Budgetary rules.

Article R712-22-1

In accordance with 4° of article L. 711-8, the regional chamber of commerce and industry shall distribute the proceeds of taxes of all kinds allocated to it by law, after deducting the share that cove…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1a: Organs, tissues and cells removed for autologous therapeutic purposes

Article R1211-22-1

When the samples referred to in the first paragraph of article R. 1211-12 are taken for autologous administration and concern elements or products of the human body intended to be prepared or preserve…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Budgetary rules.

Article R712-22-2

The draft primary or amending budgets of the territorial chambers of commerce and industry are sent to the president of the regional chamber of commerce and industry at least 15 days before the genera…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: The National Disciplinary Commission

Article R1442-22-1

In the year in which the members of the Commission are renewed, the First Presidents of the Courts of Appeal shall inform the First President of the Cour de Cassation, no later than two months after t…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the insurance of vehicles in international traffic and certain other vehicles.

Article R*211-22

Persons who bring into France a vehicle that is not normally based in France or in a State referred to in article L. 211-4 must comply with the insurance obligation if they are in possession of a vali…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings, known as "Redex".

Article R53-21-22

The managing service shall proceed with the deletion of data entered in the directory: a) Upon expiry of the period provided for in Article R. 53-21-20 ; b) When informed of one of the decisions menti…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 220

Each of the spouses has the power to enter alone into contracts which have as their object the maintenance of the household or the education of the children: any debt thus contracted by one obliges th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 223

Each spouse may freely exercise a profession, receive his or her earnings and wages and dispose of them after paying the marriage expenses.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 225

Each spouse administers, obliges and disposes of his or her personal property alone.

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