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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter I: High-level sport

Article L221-4

The upper age limits set for access to public grades and posts in the State and local authorities do not apply to top-level sportsmen and women or to top-level sports referees and judges on the list r…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-13-1

…1° In any place where a training session or event mentioned in article L. 230-3 is taking place; 2° In any establishment mentioned in article L. 322-2, in which physical or sporting activities are…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: French blood establishment and army blood transfusion centre

Article L1222-10

…nçais du Sang and the conditions for exercising the supervision and financial control of the State; 2° The qualifications of the establishment's staff for the categories it determines, and of the pers…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: General health administration.

Article L1524-4

The Biomedicine Agency established in Chapter VIII of Title I of Book IV of this Part shall exercise in Wallis and Futuna the powers conferred upon it by Title II of Book V of this Part and Title II o…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Concession contracts awarded by a contracting entity to an affiliated undertaking

Article L3211-8

…Part: 1° Undertakings whose annual accounts are consolidated with those of the contracting entity; 2° Undertakings which are likely to be, directly or indirectly, subject to the dominant influence of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1043 B

…r the benefit of irregular owners of immovable property:1° Transfers carried out by a public person;2° Deeds of notoriety and court decisions establishing usucapion.The registration in the Mayotte lan…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter III: CHECKING RIGHTS OF MOVEMENT AND RESIDENCE

Article L813-3

The foreign national may only be detained for the time strictly required to examine his or her right of movement or residence and, where applicable, to pronounce and notify the applicable administrati…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Proceedings with compulsory representation.

Article 910-4

On pain of inadmissibility, raised ex officio, the parties must submit, as early as the submissions mentioned in articles 905-2 and 908 to 910, all their claims on the merits. Inadmissibility may also…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Accreditation and quality control

Article L6221-1

…y carries out these activities:1° Biological activities relating to medically assisted procreation ;2° Pathological anatomy and cytology, for examinations listed either in the nomenclature of medical…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article L920-1

…Article L. 225-245-1, Chapter IX of Title II, Chapter IV bis of Title IV and Chapter II of Title V; 2° In Book IV, Article L. 490-9; 3° In Book VI, the articles L. 622-19 and L. 625-9 ; 4° In Book VII…

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