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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Voter information, election campaign and voting operations

Article LO1112-10

…and groupings to which at least three candidates who obtained at least 5% of the votes cast at the last renewal of the municipal council have declared their affiliation;- for a referendum decided by…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Value added tax compensation fund

Article L1615-1

…fourth, ninth and penultimate paragraphs of Article L. 1615-2 and to the grants referred to in the last paragraph of the same Article L. 1615-2, nor to the expenditure referred to in III of Article L…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-12

…they may, by a joint declaration in writing, pass on only one surname to their children. Where the last paragraph of article 342-13 is applied and the child's filiation is modified as a result, the p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 64-1

…ing judge or the court of trial, at the request of the public prosecutor or one of the parties. The last eight paragraphs of Article 114 are not applicable. Where a party requests consultation of the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia

Article L424-3

…ibunal judiciaire" are replaced by the words: "tribunal de première instance"; b) At the end of the last sentence of the fifth paragraph and the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph, the words:…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Absence due to illness or accident.

Article L1226-1-1

…The rates of additional compensation provided for by the decree adopted for the application of the last paragraph of the same article L. 1226-1; 6° The deadlines set by the same decree; 7° The method…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-11

…research involving humans concerns the field of midwifery and meets the conditions laid down in the last paragraph of Article L. 1121-5, the results of this examination are communicated to them direct…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Obligations of the insured

Article L175-14

…surer establishes that it would not have covered the risks if it had known of them. Subject to this last reservation, if the discovery takes place before any loss, the insurer may either maintain the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General rules.

Article L325-1

…rawn by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution if the undertakings referred to in the last paragraph of Article L. 321-10 and the penultimate paragraph of Article L. 321-10-1 are no long…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-3

…ing the use of natural or historical sets. For the fictional cinematographic works mentioned in the last paragraph of 1 of III of the aforementioned article 220 sexies, exemptions to the condition tha…

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