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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions applicable to medical reservists

Article D3133-1

Periods of training and employment in the health reserve for self-employed professionals, retired persons, students not remunerated for their studies and unemployed persons are compensated by the Nati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article D47-6-16

When the Paris Sentence Enforcement Court is asked to pronounce or renew a judicial measure to prevent terrorist recidivism and reintegration, to order its release, to modify its obligations, or to co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Employment contract

Article D7112-1

The severance pay provided for in Article L. 7112-3 may not be less than one month's salary for each year or fraction of a year of seniority. The maximum number of monthly payments is set at fifteen.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Information on public water supplies

Article D1321-103

The data relating to the quality of the water distributed includes in particular:-the results of the analysis of the samples provided for in articles R. 1321-15 to R. 1321-22 and their sanitary interp…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Information on public water supplies

Article D1321-104

…all measures are taken to inform users as quickly as possible by appropriate means, the mayor will display in the town hall, within two working days of receiving them, all the documents sent to him b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Information on public water supplies

Article D1321-105

When, by any means whatsoever, the results of analyses carried out as part of the monitoring provided for in article R. 1321-23 are made available to the public, every measure must be taken to ensure…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Initial training

Article D1442-10-3

The authorisations for absence mentioned in 1° of article L. 1442-2 are granted to employees at their request as soon as they are appointed and until the end of the fifteen-month period mentioned in t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Transfers

Article D3335-1

To obtain the transfer of sums held within a savings plan, the employee indicates to the company that he is leaving the assets he wishes to transfer, using the details given in the summary statement o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article D4364-17

An orthopaedic surgeon, a chiropodist-orthotist, an ocularist, an epithesist or an orthopaedic surgeon-orthotist may be registered in only one department or only in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. In the ev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article D4364-13

Orthoprosthetists, chiropodists, ocularists, epithesists and orthopaedic orthotists are subject to rules of good dispensing practice laid down by order of the Minister for Health.

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