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Showing 311320 of 778 articles for Art. bulletin 156

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Agreement-based mediation and conciliation

Article 1533

…nditions: 1° Not have been the subject of a conviction, incapacity or disqualification mentioned in bulletin no. 3 of the criminal record; 2° Possess, through the present or past exercise of an activi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 775-2

…s of right benefit, upon simple request, from the exclusion of the mention of their conviction from bulletin no. 2, according to the rules of jurisdiction set by the preceding article, at the expiry o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Anti-competitive practices.

Article R420-2

…tition Authority, the draft decrees provided for in II of article L. 420-4 must be published in the Bulletin officiel de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes. Any comment…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to elections to the various disciplinary boards and chambers

Article R4125-1

…ers of the ordre is announced at least two months before the date scheduled for the election in the bulletin of the ordre national. This announcement indicates the number of pairs or candidates to be…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Criminal penalties (R)

Article R1112-15

Any public or municipal official who distributes ballot papers or documents from elected representatives, political parties or political groupings entitled to take part in the campaign is liable to a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local referendum

Article D6232-10

It is punishable by a fifth-class fine for any public authority or local authority agent to have distributed ballot papers or documents from elected representatives, political parties or political gro…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II: Local referendum

Article D6332-10

It is punishable by a fifth-class fine for any public authority or local authority agent to have distributed ballot papers or documents from elected representatives, political parties or political gro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Elections

Article R4441-15

The ballot paper may not contain, on pain of nullity, a number of names greater than the number of titular seats, and where applicable of substitutes, of candidates to be filled, nor any sign of recog…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3a: Other penalties for serious breaches of the law

Article 1731 bis

1. For income tax purposes, the deficits referred to in I of article 156 and tax reductions may not be offset against the increases and duties giving rise to the application of one of the increases pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Postal voting.

Article R723-14

The members of the committee provided for in article L. 723-13 proceed with the counting of the ballot papers contained in the ballot box. The envelopes used to send the votes and the list of voters w…

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