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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Working hours.

Article L3162-2

The employer shall allow young workers subject to the obligation to attend vocational courses during the working day the time and freedom necessary to comply with this obligation. Time devoted to trai…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Cosmetic surgery

Article L6322-2

For all cosmetic surgery services, the person concerned and, where applicable, their legal representative in the case of a minor, their proxy under a future protection mandate, the person exercising f…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-28

I.-The rules set out in articles R. 356-26 and R. 356-27 cease to apply to the subsidiaries referred to in I of article R. 356-24 in the following cases: a) The condition referred to in a of I of arti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional advisory committees

Article R6113-22

The Professional Advisory Commissions are made up of the following members, appointed for a period of five years by order of the Minister with whom they are set up or, where they are interministerial,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Common provisions.

Article L4333-2

Occupational therapists and psychomotricians must have the language skills required to practise their profession and those relating to the systems of weights and measures used in France when their lic…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Organisation

Article L2513-2

The dissolution of the Marseille or Lyon municipal council automatically entails the dissolution of the arrondissement councils of the municipality concerned.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application.

Article L3321-2

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the conditions under which this Title shall apply to parent companies and subsidiaries.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions.

Article L5211-24

Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation which received, in place of the communes making up the public establishment, the allocations provided for in article L. 234-13 of the code des com…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Closure of the judicial liquidation.

Article R643-22

For the application of article L. 643-12, the debtor shall provide evidence of the suspension of the cheque-writing ban to the credit institution that initiated this measure by submitting a copy of th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L311-21

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this sub-section.

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