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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Help with professional integration

Article R5134-32

The maximum duration of the aid for professional integration, set at twenty-four months by article L. 5134-23, may be extended, pursuant to the first paragraph of article L. 5134-23-1, for the remaini…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Help with professional integration

Article R5134-57

The maximum duration of employability assistance, set at twenty-four months by article L. 5134-67-1, may be extended, in application of the third paragraph of the same article, for the remaining durat…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article 768

The heir may accept the succession purely and simply or renounce it. He may also accept the succession up to the amount of the net assets where he has a universal vocation or universal title. A condit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of the contract between the contracting parties.

Article 1980

The life annuity vests in the owner only in proportion to the number of days he has lived. Nevertheless, if it has been agreed that it is to be paid in advance, the term that had to be paid vests from…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R2213-5

If, at the end of the consultation carried out by the multidisciplinary team, it appears to two doctors that the continuation of the pregnancy poses a serious threat to the woman's health, they shall…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Free information, screening and diagnostic centres

Article R3121-23-2

Failure by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency to respond within six months of receipt of the applications for authorisation and renewal referred to in Articles D. 3121-23 and D. 3121-2…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Submission of the contract

Article D6224-6

When the apprenticeship contract is terminated before its term, the employer immediately notifies the termination to the skills operator, who informs the services of the minister responsible for vocat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-5

…letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or the police station or gendarmerie of his or her place of residence, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by attending the service : 1° To…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Articles of association, share capital, shares.

Article R4113-35

…well as the provisions of this section, the Articles of Association shall state: 1° the full names, residences and registration numbers of the members ; 2° In the case of doctors, the qualifications a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Investigations

Article R232-86-1

…ators authorised to conduct investigations take an oath before the judicial court of their place of residence or before the Paris judicial court, stating: "I swear to carry out with accuracy and probi…

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