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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable in the event of recording using a secure electronic device

Article A37-27-3

The five sheets of each of the booklets of counterfoil receipts for collection meet the following characteristics. The front and back of sheet no. 1 of the bundle include a reminder of the legislative…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for authorising laboratories

Article R1131-13

The analyses mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article R. 1131-2 may only be performed in the medical biology laboratories of public health establishments, the laboratories of cancer centres, the medical biol…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Insurance on goods transported by all modes of transport

Article L173-20

Goods may be surrendered if they are : 1° totally lost ;2° Lost or damaged up to three quarters of their value;3° Sold en route due to material damage to the insured objects as a result of a covered r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Involvement of midwives in vaccination policy

Article D4151-25

I.-Midwives may prescribe and administer the vaccines mentioned in the decrees provided for in 1° and 2° of article L. 4151-2 to persons whose age conditions and, where applicable, pathologies are spe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application.

Article L7231-2

Decrees will specify 1° The content of the personal services activities mentioned in Article L. 7231-1; 2° A ceiling in terms of the value or working time of home-based services enabling the activitie…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Operations concerned

Article L722-5

Transfers of funds other than those mentioned in 1° to 9° of Article L. 722-4 are governed by Articles L. 722-9 to L. 722-17.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Operations concerned

Article L722-4

…rvice provider or intermediary payment service provider domiciled in Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia or the Wallis and Futuna Islands, with the exception of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Dormant accounts managed by the Office des postes et télécommunications

Article R752-5

…e the end of the period specified in the last paragraph of article L. 773-17, the Office des postes et télécommunications will notify account holders or their beneficiaries of the forfeiture by regist…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Dormant accounts managed by the Office des postes et télécommunications

Article R753-5

Three months before the end of the period set out in the last paragraph of article L. 774-17, the Office des postes et télécommunications will notify account holders or their beneficiaries of the forf…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 7: Preparation of the economic, social and environmental plan.

Article R631-28

The articles R. 623-1 and R. 623-2 are applicable to receivership proceedings.

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