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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties.

Article R4235-3

Pharmacists must take care to preserve their freedom of professional judgement in the performance of their duties. They may not alienate their independence in any form whatsoever. They must behave in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Suspension or termination of the agreement

Article R5123-37

Suspension of the agreement entails suspension of payment of the State's financial contribution from the first day of the month following the month in which the breach was detected. Suspension does no…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Help with professional integration

Article R5134-33

…f work integration assistance may, for the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 5134-23-1, be extended to sixty months by successive extension decisions of a maximum of one year. The…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Compliance with the Code of Ethics

Article R8124-32

…ce to the powers of the ethics officer provided for in article 28 bis of the aforementioned Act of 13 July 1983, employees involved in labour inspection activities may refer to the Conseil national de…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Special contribution

Article R8253-3

…ns enabling the date of receipt by the addressee to be proven, that the provisions of article L. 8253-1 are likely to be applied to him and that he may submit his observations within a period of fifte…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-37

…a non-existent, insufficient or inadequate offer on their territory, municipalities may create and maintain charging infrastructures necessary for the use of electric or rechargeable hybrid vehicles…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 12: Appeals against orders of the investigating judge or the liberty and custody judge

Article 186-3

…may also, in the absence of co-signature by the co-investigating judges in accordance with Article 83-2, appeal against these orders.Except in the cases provided for in this article, an appeal lodged…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Administrative fines.

Article L1264-3

The administrative fine referred to in articles L. 1264-1 and L. 1264-2 is imposed by the competent administrative authority, after it has been observed by one of the labour inspection officers referr…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Prerogatives and means of intervention

Article L412-3

…article L. 411-1 which remain the only bodies competent to exercise the prerogatives set out in this title.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for residential or business premises

Article L412-3

…d exercises his right of repossession under the conditions provided for inarticle 19 of law no. 48-1360 of 1st September 1948 amending and codifying the legislation relating to the relationship betwee…

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