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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-3

…tory purpose includes defending or assisting children at risk and victims of all forms of abuse may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in respect of intentional attacks on life and limb, ass…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Criminal penalties

Article L341-50

…e Criminal Code, to hold a public office or to engage in the professional or social activity in the exercise or on the occasion of the exercise of which the offence was committed, or to engage in a co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Guarantees granted at the end of the term of office

Article L2123-11-2

…at least 10,000 inhabitants who has received a delegation of function from the latter who, for the exercise of his mandate, had ceased to exercise his professional activity shall receive, at his requ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-11

…he said I ;3° Economic, social, environmental and trade union training for employees called upon to exercise trade union functions or for members of an employees' trade union organisation called upon…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter IV: RIGHT TO PERMANENT RESIDENCE

Article R234-4

…ity organisation;5° After three years of regular and continuous activity and residence, in order to exercise a professional activity in another State mentioned in articles L. 200-2 and L. 200-3, provi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: State services and property made available to the territorial collectivity of Corsica

Article L4422-44

…the territorial collectivity of Corsica of movable and immovable property used by the State for the exercise of these competencies. This handover is recorded in a report which specifies in particular…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Powers

Article LO6314-7

…degree. With the aim of preserving the social cohesion of Saint-Martin, guaranteeing the effective exercise of the right to housing for its inhabitants and safeguarding or developing natural areas, t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Guarantees granted at the end of the term of office

Article L7125-11

…mbly of French Guyana, the president or any vice-president delegated by the latter who, in order to exercise his mandate, had ceased to exercise his professional activity shall receive, at his request…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Guarantees granted at the end of the term of office or the performance of duties

Article L7227-11

…any vice-president, the president of the executive council or any executive councillor who, for the exercise of his mandate, had ceased to exercise his professional activity shall receive, at his requ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Identification of accounts and treatment of overindebtedness

Article L721-25

…edonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer may exercise, in the name and on behalf of the Autorité des marchés financiers, the latter's powers of c…

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