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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Termination of benefits

Article L551-12

…refugees or granted the benefit of subsidiary protection and persons who have been the subject of a final rejection decision may be, on an exceptional and temporary basis, kept in a place of accommoda…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Preferential allocations.

Article 834

…preferential allotment does not become the sole owner of the property allotted until the day of the final partition. Until that date, he may renounce the allotment only where the value of the property…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Article A212-121

…btain an average of 10 out of 20 or more in all the tests defined in article A. 212-120 are offered final admission to the examination for the common part of the third-degree state diploma in sports e…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and award conditions

Article 432-4

…432-1, the amount of aid may not exceed 50% of the final cost of the work.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIX: Special seizures

Article R53-50

…antiate the rights and identity of the applicant. Deconsignment is carried out on production of the final decision designating the beneficiary of the sums and any document that can justify the rights…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of the profession.

Article R4113-80

The disciplinary penalty of deregistration, which has become final, pronounced against the company or against all the members, automatically entails the dissolution of the company and its liquidation…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R8252-10

…oyee not authorised to work or his representative, pursuant to Article L. 8252-2, has handed down a final decision ordering the employer or the principal to pay the outstanding sums, the court registr…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Recovery.

Article 347

…the judicial court.Such referral suspends the limitation period referred to in article 351 until a final court decision has been reached.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Single chapter

Article R251-10

…with the distribution. Payments are made no later than eight days after the distribution has become final. On expiry of this period, the sums due shall bear interest at the legal rate.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment of sums held in the automatic cinema exhibition account

Article 232-13

For a request concerning works and investments to be carried out or planned training courses, the final invoices must be submitted within six months of their completion. This deadline may be extended…

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