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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the recognition and monitoring in France of convictions and probation decisions handed down by the competent authorities of other Member States of the European Union

Article 764-26

…mposed by the sentencing State which could legally have been imposed by a French court for the same acts. Where the duration of the alternative penalty or probation measure is longer than that which c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions specific to the Department of Mayotte

Article 880

…be exercised by a person chosen by the person in police custody, who is not implicated for the same acts or for related acts and who has not been the subject of any conviction, incapacity or disqualif…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Agreements relating to unemployment insurance.

Article L5422-20-1

…kinds mentioned in 5° of article L. 5422-9, without prejudice to the provisions of the next Finance Acts and Social Security Financing Acts. A Conseil d'Etat decree shall determine the conditions for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Poisonous substances.

Article L5432-2

I. - The following offences are punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of €375,000: manufacturing, importing, exporting, transporting, offering, transferring, acquiring, possessing, using i…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting tariffs

Article R444-10-1

…follows: 1° Services referred to in II of article R. 444-10; 2° Services relating to financing transactions and guarantees listed in the sub-category "acts relating principally to loans, debts and sur…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Common provisions

Article R1518-1

…ental hygiene council are exercised by the Mayotte hygiene council;5° Insertions in the Recueil des actes administratifs of the department are made in the Recueil des actes administratifs of Mayotte;6…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The High Council of Statutory Auditors

Article R821-19

I. - When the High Council concludes that acts contrary to the statute governing statutory auditors or to the rules governing the practice of statutory auditing have been committed on the territory of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-24

…by the Minister of Justice, shall assist in the application of Article 230-23. This magistrate may act ex officio or at the request of private individuals. He shall have direct access to such softwar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Taking of evidence

Article 451

A person who, acting by virtue of a legal obligation or on his own initiative, has brought the facts being prosecuted to the attention of the courts, shall be received as a witness, but the president…

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

Article R131-39

Pursuant to the provisions of IV of article 31 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978, the delegating federation responsible for authorised data processing shall send the Commission nationale de…

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