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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Investment certificates.

Article R228-38

…preference shares with the same rights as investment certificates shall be made within the period set for this purpose by the company and indicated in the offer. If no beneficiaries are designated, t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition and operation

Article R321-38

The Conseil des Maisons de Vente draws up its own internal regulations, which set out the conditions under which it operates and the organisation of its departments. These rules also define the condit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R15-38

In urgent cases, provisional authorisation, valid until the decision of the next general meeting or select committee, may be granted by the doyen of the examining magistrates, on the proposal or after…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Wanted persons file

Article R40-38

The wanted persons file referred to in article 230-19 is governed by decree no. 2010-569 of 28 May 2010.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Informing the person entered in the file

Article R50-38

…ver, the person shall not be notified of his obligations at the hearing if he is placed or kept in detention pursuant to the conviction justifying his inclusion in the file. Failing this, notification…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Appeal procedures

Article R249-38

Without prejudice to the provisions of the second paragraph of III of the article 803-8 providing for a suspensive appeal by the public prosecutor, an appeal lodged by a sentenced person against a tra…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Employment and working conditions

Article R1253-38

The company may recruit employees either to assign them exclusively to the activity of the employers' group, or to assign them both to this activity and to its other activities.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-38

In each region, the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment publishes the list of admissible applications in the Recueil des actes administratifs fifteen days a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Local biovigilance system

Article R1211-38

…roducts or derivatives mentioned in 1° of I of Article R. 1211-29 likely to present a quality or safety defect.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Application to the armed forces health service

Article R1245-38

For the purposes of this chapter, army hospitals and the army blood transfusion centre are regarded as health establishments and blood transfusion establishments respectively.

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