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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title III: JUDGE'S JURISDICTION

Article R631-3

The consumer may bring the matter either before one of the courts having territorial jurisdiction under the Code of Civil Procedure, or before the court for the place where he resided when the contrac…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK II: INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION

Article L5210-3

The departmental council and the regional council concerned may, at the request of either of them, be involved by a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation in the preparation of any develo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Principles.

Article L4131-3

No sanction or deduction of wages may be taken against a worker or group of workers who have withdrawn from a work situation which they had reasonable cause to believe presented a serious and imminent…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Actions and resources of members of multidisciplinary occupational health teams.

Article L4624-3

The occupational physician may propose, in writing and after discussion with the employee and the employer, individual measures for the adaptation or transformation of the workstation or measures for…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Social protection

Article L7125-30

Councillors to the Assembly of French Guyana shall be affiliated to the supplementary pension scheme instituted for the benefit of non-tenured public authority employees. Pensions paid pursuant to thi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Provisions applicable to the judicial supervision of dangerous persons convicted of a felony or misdemeanour

Article D147-38

When the sentence enforcement court is seized by the public prosecutor for the purpose of ordering judicial supervision, it may rule by the same judgment, at the request of the sentence enforcement ju…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Section 9: Exemptions from the administrative authority

Article R4216-32

The Regional Director for Business, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment may waive part of the application of the provisions of this chapter, particularly in the case of the redevelopment o…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Alarm systems

Article R4227-34

Establishments in which more than fifty people may be occupied or habitually assembled, as well as those, regardless of their size, where flammable materials mentioned in article R. 4227-22 are handle…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Notification of the decision

Article R4234-37

The decisions of the Disciplinary Board shall be made public by posting. The names and addresses of the parties may be rendered anonymous by the Disciplinary Board, in particular where this could infr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of chiropodists

Article R4322-36

Every chiropodist must refrain, even outside the practice of his profession, from any act likely to bring it into disrepute. They may not engage in any other activity at the same time as that of chiro…

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