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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Entry into office, age limit and honorary membership

Article R742-31-1

The application for authorisation to extend the activity provided for in article L. 741-1 is submitted to the Minister of Justice, by tele-procedure on the Ministry of Justice website, no later than t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Operating grant

Article R2315-31-1

The annual surplus from the operating budget may be transferred to the budget for social and cultural activities in accordance with article L. 2315-61, up to a limit of 10% of this surplus. This sum a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the devolution of surnames and customary names

Article 311-24-1

In the event of the birth abroad of a child at least one of whose parents is French, the transcription of the child's birth record must retain the child's name as it appears on the foreign birth recor…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the devolution of surnames and customary names

Article 311-24-2

Any person of legal age may use one of the names provided for in the first and last paragraphs of article 311-21. With regard to minor children, this option is exercised by both parents exercising par…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Involuntary hospitalisation

Article D47-29-1

…mmediately enforceable, without prejudice to the possibility of referring the matter to the liberty and custody judge in accordance with the provisions of l'article L. 3211-12 of the Public Health Cod…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Drawing up and updating the national list of medical accident experts.

Article R1142-31-1

I.- Candidates who have never carried out expert appraisals or whose expert appraisals submitted when applying for inclusion on the list referred to inarticle L. 1142-11 do not allow them to be consid…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Drawing up and updating the national list of medical accident experts.

Article R1142-31-2

…his knowledge in the field(s) of expertise for which he was registered on the list has been updated and, if he has acquired knowledge in the field of personal injury compensation, verified in accordan…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Involvement of the State representative in the département

Article R1334-29-9

I. - In application of 2° of article L. 1334-15, the Prefect may require a survey to be carried out, at the expense of the building owner, to check that the measures planned or implemented under the o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Coordination of regional cooperation between the French West Indies and French Guiana

Article R*4433-31

The conference meets when convened by its chairman, who sets the agenda after consulting the management committees. The secretariat of the conference is provided by the services of the prefect of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Special provisions applicable to Paris

Article R*3131-18

The powers conferred on the representative of the State in the département by article L. 3131-17 are exercised in Paris by the Préfet de Police.

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