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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article R132-3

Life insurance contracts (with or without counter-insurance) or capitalisation contracts must indicate the charges levied by the company. These charges may be denominated in the currency of the contra…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Mission, conditions of access and exercise and incompatibilities.

Article L811-3

The national list is divided into sections corresponding to the jurisdiction of each court of appeal.Where the court-appointed administrator is an employee, the list specifies this capacity and the na…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article D1511-34

For the application of the third paragraph of articles L. 2252-1, L. 3231-4 and L. 4253-1, the maximum proportion of annual instalments guaranteed or secured for the benefit of a single debtor, payabl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-32

When it issues a prohibition pursuant to the provisions of Article 706-136, the investigating chamber or the trial court may order, either in its decision or in a subsequent decision, that the declara…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Permission to leave

Article D143-3

…persons admitted to the semi-liberty regime or benefiting from work release pursuant to article D. 136 and to sentenced persons placed under electronic surveillance.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single section: Information and communication

Article R2262-3

A notice is sent to employees by any means. This notice includes the titles of the agreements applicable in the establishment. The generic term "Accords nationaux interprofessionnels" may be substitut…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Monitoring weekly rest periods

Article R3172-3

Newly recruited employees must be entered in the special register of employees subject to a special weekly rest regime after a period of six days. Until the expiry of this period, and in the absence o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Distribution

Article R3252-36

The statement of distribution may be contested within fifteen days of its notification. If no objection is lodged within this period, the court clerk will send each creditor a cheque for the amount of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Conditions for referral to the Agency by academies, medical or scientific learned societies and approved associations

Article D1418-36

In application of Article L. 1418-1, the academies, learned medical or scientific societies and approved associations mentioned in Article L. 1114-1 may refer to the Agence de la biomédecine any reque…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Procedures and penalties

Article L343-3

…r for Culture under the same conditions as those laid down for the agents referred to in Article L. 331-2.

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