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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors

Article R1313-4

In addition to its Chairman, the Board of Directors comprises: 1° A college made up of eight members representing the State: a) A representative of the Minister for Health; b) A representative of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Duties of the occupational physician.

Article R4623-1

…revention of occupational risks and the protection of workers' health, in particular by: a) Improving living and working conditions in the company ; b) Adapting workstations, techniques and work patte…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Forwarding agents.

Article L132-8

The consignment note forms a contract between the sender, the freight forwarder and the consignee or between the sender, the consignee, the freight forwarder and the freight forwarder. The freight for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: The Board of Directors

Article L1424-27-1

…n scheme set up for the benefit of non-tenured public authority employees. This affiliation may not give rise to validation of services.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article 480

A judgment which determines in its operative part all or part of the principal issue, or a judgment which rules on a procedural objection, a plea in bar or any other incident, shall, as soon as it is…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Initiation of the appeal in cassation.

Article 617

The contrariety of judgments may be invoked when the plea of non-receivability based on the authority of res judicata has been unsuccessfully raised before the trial judges. In this case, the appeal i…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Furnishings

Article 531

Boats, ferries, ships, mills and baths on boats, and generally all factories not fixed by pillars, and not forming part of the house, are movable: the seizure of some of these objects may, however, be…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 98

…l information, any communication or disclosure without the authorisation of the person under investigation or his successors in title or the signatory or recipient of a document resulting from a searc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 196

The Public Prosecutor acts in the same way when he receives, subsequent to a decision by the Investigating Chamber to dismiss the case, documents which appear to him to contain new charges under the t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Deliberations of the Assize Court

Article 363

If the fact held against the accused does not fall or no longer falls under the application of criminal law, or if the accused is found not guilty, the assize court pronounces the accused acquitted. I…

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