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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Work release, semi-liberty, temporary absences and escorted absences

Article 723-1

The sentence enforcement judge may provide that the sentence will be served under the semi-liberty or work release scheme either in the event of a sentence of one or more custodial sentences whose tot…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 776-1

The bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record of legal entities is issued: 1° To prefects, State administrations and local authorities to whom proposals or tenders for the award of public works or contrac…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Institution of proceedings

Article 750-1

…prior appeal is imposed on the author of the decision; 3° If the absence of recourse to one of the methods of amicable resolution mentioned in the first paragraph is justified by a legitimate reason r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-1

…he judicial police officer has recourse to a qualified person for the purposes of:1° Comparing a genetic fingerprint obtained from a biological trace with the genetic fingerprint of a person against w…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Transcription of a marriage celebrated abroad by a foreign authority

Article 171-7

…ted to one or more permanent civil registrars or, where appropriate, to civil registrars heading a detached chancery or to the competent honorary consuls of French nationality.Where there are serious…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 707-1

…he enforcement of value confiscations are carried out on behalf of the public prosecutor by the competent public accountant or, in cases where the value confiscation is enforced on previously seized p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General conditions of application of the Code in the local authorities governed by Article 73 of the Constitution, in Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L711-1

Pursuant to Article 73 of the Constitution, the provisions of this Code apply by operation of law in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion Island, subject to the provisions of Tit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-7

…referred to in Article 706-47 and for carrying out the procedures provided for in Articles 706-53-5 et 706-53-8 ;3° To prefects and State administrations, the list of which is determined by the decree…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Local investment funds.

Article D214-79-1

…d if, over a period of three years, each of the innovation mutual funds and local investment funds set up by the management company concerned has subscriptions totalling less than 5 million euros and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6a: The equity savings plan for financing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies

Article D221-113-7

The provisions of articles 91 quater G to 91 quater K ter of appendix II to the general tax code are applicable to the share savings plan intended for the financing of small and medium-sized companies…

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