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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 403

…gs only to the last surviving father and mother if he or she has retained, on the day of death, the exercise of parental authority. This appointment may only be made in the form of a will or a special…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article 479

…ny stipulation to the contrary is deemed unwritten. The mandate may provide that the mandatary will exercise the missions that the Public Health Code and the Social Action and Family Code entrust to t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Technical sports advisors to sports federations

Article R131-24

Staff working as sports technical advisors must exercise professional discretion with regard to all facts, information or documents of which they are aware, particularly concerning the Ministry of Spo…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-45-2

The rights of access to and rectification of the data mentioned in Article R. 131-45-1 may be exercised with the Chairman of the Autorité Nationale des Jeux and the Data Protection Officer of La Franç…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Training.

Article L1442-1

…under conditions determined by decree.Industrial tribunal members undergo initial training for the exercise of their judicial function and ongoing training. The initial training is common to both emp…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 678

…hey are made and the said inheritance, unless the land or the part of the land on which the view is exercised is already encumbered, for the benefit of the land which benefits from it, by an easement…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Rights of the parties

Article 696-129

…ided for in article 696-114, persons under investigation, assisted witnesses or civil parties shall exercise all the rights granted to them by this Code during the investigation, in particular the rig…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-16

In the exercise of their powers, the sentence enforcement courts may carry out or have carried out, throughout the national territory, all examinations, hearings, investigations, expert reports, requi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the matching of personal data carried out by the Autorité nationale des jeux and by La Française des jeux for the purposes of Article L. 333-1-4

Article R333-14

The rights of access to and rectification of the data mentioned in Article R. 333-13 may be exercised with the Chairman of the Autorité Nationale des Jeux and the Data Protection Officer of La Françai…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions.

Article L2281-11

In companies where no trade union delegate has been appointed or where an agreement on professional equality between men and women and the quality of life and working conditions has not been concluded…

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