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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Creation of a new commune

Article L2113-8-3

…ation of a new commune, the provisions of Article L. 541-3 of the Education Code and the article L. 229-25 of the Environment Code do not apply to this new commune unless they were applicable, on the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-8

Withdrawals made for the benefit of public accountants and revenue managers for the payment of local products, miscellaneous products and fines for which they are responsible do not incur any costs fo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-9

…informs the person entered in the file that the State administrations mentioned in article R. 53-8-24 may directly query the file pursuant to the first paragraph of 3° of Article 706-53-7. The model…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Secure detention

Article R53-8-55

…oncerned and the course of the detention measures, are determined by the provisions of Article R. 112-17 and articles R. 541-2 et seq. of the Penitentiary Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Rules specific to the drawing of lots

Article D1411-58-8

…ermined in such a way that the parity rule defined in the first paragraph of I of article L. 1411-5-2 is respected according to the number of women and men who remain to be appointed, taking into acco…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Cross-disciplinary provisions on quality in cancer research

Article R6123-91-8

…s possible to their place of life, to the fertility preservation techniques mentioned in Article L. 2141-11. To this end, the organisation set up involves at least one holder of the authorisation for…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special conditions for the "multi-purpose" option

Article D6124-177-8

The coordinating doctor has proven training or experience in rehabilitation.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition

Article L612-8-1

…composed of seven members:1° The Governor of the Banque de France or his representative, Chairman ;2° The Director General of the Treasury or his representative; and3° The Chairman of the Autorité de…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-14

For the application of 1° and 2° of Article 706-53-5, the proof referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 53-8-13 is delivered or sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article R22-10-8

The report of the contribution auditors describes each of the contributions, indicates which valuation method was adopted and why it was chosen, and states that the value of the contributions correspo…

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