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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Infringements of the rules concerning work by young people and by pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding

Article R4743-1

…an who has recently given birth or a nursing mother in prohibited work, in disregard of article L. 4152-1 and the decrees adopted for its application, is punishable by a fine of the fifth class. Repea…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Training.

Article L1442-2

For the purposes of the training provided for in article L. 1442-1, employers shall grant employees of their company who are members of an industrial tribunal leave of absence, which may be divided in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 697

…ction to investigate and, in the case of misdemeanours, try the offences referred to in Article 697-1. Magistrates are assigned, after consultation with the general assembly, to the trial panels, spec…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Payment of duties

Article 1701

…if necessary. In the absence of prior payment of the land registration tax, the deposit is refused (1).

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: General system of acquits-à-caution.

Article 123

1. The undertakings given by the guarantors shall be cancelled or the sums deposited shall be reimbursed on the basis of the certificate of discharge given by the customs officers. 2. The Director Gen…

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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 Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Consultation of the file and issue of copies

Article 1222

…nd with the authorisation of the court seised, by one of the persons listed in articles 430 and 494-1 of the Civil Code if it can justify a legitimate interest. Their lawyers, if they have appointed o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: The adoption procedure

Article 1174

…ether it is a full adoption or a simple adoption and contains the particulars prescribed by article 1056. It also contains, where full adoption is granted pursuant to article 370-1-4 of the Civil Code…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 4: Recipients of data

Article R142-17

The data recorded in the electronic component provided for in Article R. 431-1, excluding the digitised image of fingerprints, are read by the processing mentioned in Article 1 of Decree No. 2019-452…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Wanted persons file

Article 230-19

The following are entered in the wanted persons file in respect of judicial decisions: 1° Search warrants, orders and notes issued by the public prosecutor, investigating, trial or sentence enforcemen…

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