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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 696-43

…mber shall order the return of the papers and other objects listed above which do not relate to the act imputed to the person claimed. It shall rule, where applicable, on the claims of third-party hol…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Surrender of the wanted person

Article 695-39

…ing prosecuted in France or has already been sentenced there and must serve a sentence there for an act other than that covered by the European arrest warrant, the Investigating Chamber may, after rul…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 706-50

The public prosecutor or examining magistrate, seised of acts committed voluntarily against a minor, appoints an ad hoc administrator when the minor's interests are not fully protected by his or her l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event of recognition of impairment of judgement

Article 706-136-1

…a period that he fixes and which may not exceed five years in criminal matters or ten years if the acts committed constitute a crime or an offence punishable by ten years imprisonment. The last parag…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition of regulated market and market undertaking

Article L421-2

…all times comply with the laws and regulations applicable to it.The market undertaking carries out acts relating to the organisation and operation of each regulated market that it manages. It shall e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other conditions of access and practice

Article L519-3-3

Intermediaries in banking transactions and payment services who are natural persons acting in their own name, persons who direct, manage or administer intermediaries in banking transactions and paymen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings.

Article L2262-15

…l or part of a collective agreement or convention, it may decide, if it appears to it that the retroactive effect of this annulment is likely to have manifestly excessive consequences by reason both o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1544-3

…compensation for damages under national solidarity schemes, when they are directly attributable to acts carried out in the context of research involving the human person and when they have had abnorm…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article R220-3

…plosion, the release of heat, irradiation resulting from the transmutation of atomic nuclei or radioactivity, as well as the effects of radiation caused by the artificial acceleration of particles;c)…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: The guarantee fund for victims of terrorism and other offences.

Article R*422-8

The offer of compensation for personal injury made to the victim of an act of terrorism shall indicate the assessment made by the Fund for each head of loss and the amount of compensation due to the v…

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