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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 142-2

…he sureties lifted if the accused, defendant or person under investigation has appeared for all the acts of the proceedings, has complied with the obligations of judicial supervision and has submitted…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 141-3

…a judicial supervision order against a person previously placed in pre-trial detention for the same acts, the cumulative period of detention may not exceed by more than four months the maximum period…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 470-2

…122-3,122-4,122-5 and 122-7 of the Penal Code only after finding that the person had committed the acts of which they were accused. If it considers that the first paragraph of Article 122-1 of the Cr…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-19-1

When the competent delegating federation finds that a lawyer, acting as agent for one of the parties involved in the conclusion of one of the contracts mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 2…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Safety at sporting events

Article L332-7

The act of introducing, wearing or displaying in a sports arena, during the staging or public broadcasting of a sporting event, insignia, signs or symbols inciting hatred or discrimination against per…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Sexual harassment.

Article L1153-5

The employer shall take all necessary steps to prevent, put an end to and punish acts of sexual harassment. In the workplace and on the premises or at the door of the premises where recruitment takes…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions

Article L1133-3

As stated in Article 226-27 of the Criminal Code, reproduced below: "The act of identifying a person by genetic fingerprinting for medical or scientific research purposes or of taking biological trace…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requirements as to good repute

Article L512-4

…urance or reinsurance intermediaries and secondary insurance intermediaries who are natural persons acting in their own name, persons who direct, manage or administer intermediaries who are legal pers…

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French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
TITLE II: AID FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

Article L520-1

A subsidy, the amount of which is set each year by the Finance Act, is allocated to young people under the age of twenty-one who fly motorised aircraft in flying clubs. This subsidy takes the form of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Penalty procedure

Article L423-5

…of three years, renewable once. The rapporteur is bound by professional secrecy with regard to any facts, acts or information that may have come to his knowledge by virtue of his office, under the con…

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