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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Professional acts.

Article R4311-7

The nurse is authorised to perform the following acts either in application of a medical prescription or its renewal by a nurse in advanced practice under the conditions provided for in article R. 430…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Suspended probation

Article 741-2

…and submitted by the prison integration and probation service pursuant to the provisions of article L. 621-3 of the Penitentiary Code, the sentence enforcement judge, where the third paragraph of arti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 731-1

…rcement court, this person is subject to a treatment order under the conditions set out in articles L. 3711-1 et seq. of the Public Health Code if it is established, after the expert assessment provid…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Organisation and supervision of the profession

Article R821-76

…are duly provided, at their request, to the persons in charge of the audits referred to in Article L. 821-9. To this end, they shall keep a copy of these documents or agree with the statutory auditor…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other narcotic substances and preparations

Article R5132-75

…rovisions of the previous paragraph do not apply when the delegated pharmacist mentioned in article L. 5124-2, who holds the authorisation provided for in article R. 5132-74, changes pharmaceutical es…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article R662-7

…s provided for in Book VI of the legislative part of this Code to another court pursuant to Article L. 662-2, this referral may be decided ex officio by the president of the court seised, who shall im…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The guarantee fund.

Article R334-7

The guarantee fund of the undertakings referred to in article L. 310-3-2 authorised to operate in one or more of the classes referred to in 1 to 18 of articles R. 321-1 of this Code, R. 211-2 of the M…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and mandate of employee representatives

Article R1233-7

…tives elected by each of the two electoral colleges provided for in 1° and 2° of B of II of article L. 1233-5 is set by order of the Minister responsible for regional planning, no later than six month…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Compensation for victims of injury resulting from contamination by the hepatitis C virus caused by a transfusion of blood products or an injection of blood-derived medicinal products

Article R1221-71

…n the field(s) concerned, from the national list of medical accident experts referred to in article L. 1142-10 or one of the lists established by article 2 of law no. 71-498 of 29 June 1971 relating t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-2

…ed by a lawyer, and that they have the opportunity to make any observations that they consider useful. These observations may relate in particular to the regularity of the procedure, the classificatio…

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