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Showing 34713480 of 67627 articles for Art. s. L 237-14 to L 237-31 · Arts. R 237-2

French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Hygiene of buildings and built-up areas.

Article L1331-22

Any premises, facility, immovable property or group of premises, facilities or immovable property, whether vacant or not, that constitutes, either by itself or due to the conditions in which it is occ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5121-21

I.-For the application of article L. 5121-1 :1° Army hospitals are considered to be health establishments ;2° The Armed Forces Central Pharmacy may be authorised to make the hospital preparations ment…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Opening and operating conditions

Article L6222-2

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency may object to the opening of a medical biology laboratory or a site of a medical biology laboratory, where this would have the effect of increasing t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L6161-2

Practitioners working in a private for-profit health establishment are automatically entitled to form a medical conference, the powers of which are set out in I of article L. 6161-2-2.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Registration and deregistration

Article L752-2

As soon as a debtor applies to a personal over-indebtedness commission, it informs the Banque de France for the purposes of registration in the file.The same obligation is incumbent on the registry of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Criminal provisions.

Article L7124-25

Directly or indirectly providing the children mentioned in 1° to 4° of article L. 7124-1 and article L. 7124-2 or their legal representatives with funds in excess of the share set pursuant to the firs…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Part Two: Community of Conventions.

Article 1497

The spouses may, in their marriage contract, modify the legal community by any kind of agreement not contrary to articles 1387, 1388 and 1389. They may, in particular, agree: 1° That the community wil…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application.

Article L2311-2

A social and economic committee is set up in companies with at least eleven employees.It is only compulsory to set up such a committee if there are at least eleven employees for twelve consecutive mon…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General principles

Article L1142-2

Health professionals practising on a self-employed basis, health establishments, health services and the bodies mentioned in article L. 1142-1, and any other legal entity, other than the State, carryi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Compensation for victims of benfluorex

Article L1142-24-2

Any person who considers themselves to be the victim of a functional impairment attributable to benfluorex or, where applicable, their legal representative in the case of a minor or their beneficiarie…

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