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French Public Health CodeIn force
APPENDICES TO PART SIX

Article Annexe 61-5

…6145-6. UNALLOCATED ALLOCATION Expenditure GROUP 1 Operating expenses relating to personnel A 631: Taxes and similar payments on salaries (tax authorities) A 633: Taxes and similar payments on remune…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Prohibited work

Article D4154-1

…employment contract and temporary employees to carry out work exposing them to the following dangerous chemical agents or ionising radiation: 1° Asbestos: servicing or maintenance operations on flocki…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Discipline

Article R6152-930

…ry sanctions applicable to associate practitioners are : 1° A warning ; 2° a reprimand 3° Temporary exclusion from service for a period not exceeding six months and deprivation of all remuneration; 4°…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article L221-1

…nd a consumer, under an organised distance sales or service-provision scheme, without the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer, through the exclusive use of one or more means…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Management of the special reserve.

Article D3324-39

In the event of the employee's death, his heirs request the liquidation of his rights. The tax regime provided for in 4 of III of article 150-0 A of the General Tax Code ceases to apply to them from t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L1311-13

…syndicates are authorised to receive and authenticate, with a view to their publication in the real estate file, deeds concerning real property rights as well as leases, passed in administrative form…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 8: Special provisions for non-trading property investment companies

Article L214-118

…lier may transfer its assets and liabilities by way of demerger to undertakings for collective real estate investment, whatever their form.As an exception to article L. 214-114, prior to the demerger,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1098

If a spouse has made to his or her spouse, within the limits of article 1094-1, a gift in property, each of the children who are not descended from both spouses shall have, as far as he or she is conc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Translative effect

Article 1198

…person, the one who first published his title of acquisition executed in authentic form in the real estate file is preferred, even if his right is subsequent, provided that he is in good faith.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1571

…ding to the rules of article 1469, third paragraph. If the liabilities exceed the assets, this surplus is fictitiously reunited with the final estate.

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