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Showing 411420 of 17922 articles for Art. Lonsdale v Howard & Hallam [2007] UKHL 32

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative.

Article LO6221-32

Each year, the State representative informs the Territorial Council, through a special report, of the activity of the State services in Saint-Barthélemy. This special report may give rise to a debate…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative.

Article LO6321-32

At its request, the president of the territorial council receives from the representative of the State the information necessary for the exercise of its attributions. At its request, the representativ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 8: Relations with the State representative.

Article LO6431-32

The representative of the State may, within fifteen days of it being forwarded to him or her, ask the Territorial Council or the Executive Council, as the case may be, by means of a reasoned order, fo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Retirement

Article L7227-32

…the application of articles L. 7227-29 to L. 7227-31, the contributions of the territorial collectivity of Martinique and those of its elected representatives are calculated on the amount of compensa…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Judicial police officers of the national gendarmerie

Article R15-32

The judicial police officers and agents belonging to the departmental gendarmerie search brigades referred to in Article R. 15-24 (1°), are competent to operate on all lines, stations, stops and corri…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Processing of criminal records

Article R40-32

The implementation and updating of the processing operation shall be supervised by a senior public prosecutor, appointed for three years by order of the Minister of Justice, and assisted by a committe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Registration in the file

Article R50-32

Verification of the identity of persons entered in the file provided for in the first paragraph of Article 706-25-5 is carried out, where possible, in the light of information communicated to the crim…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Possibility for a witness to give evidence anonymously

Article R53-32

…where applicable, the opinion of the public prosecutor, the record of the hearing and the report provided for in the second and third paragraphs of Article R. 53-27 are placed in a file separate from…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Notification to the Banque de France of closed accounts and theft or loss of cheque forms.

Article R131-32

…rst business day following the closure of the account or the stop payment. To this end, it shall provide the information specified in 1° of article R. 131-12 and, if known, the numbers of the stolen o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Criminal provisions.

Article L7123-32

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide the user, at his or her request, with a certificate from the social security bodies, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-22, is…

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