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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-310

Midwifery should not be practised as a business.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-317

A midwife requested or required to examine a person deprived of liberty must inform the judicial authority if she finds that this person is not receiving the care justified by his condition or has bee…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-311

Midwives are prohibited from distributing remedies, appliances or any other products presented as having a health benefit for profit. They are prohibited from dispensing unauthorised medicines.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-316

When a midwife discerns that a woman to whom she is called, or her child, is being abused, she must use the most appropriate means to protect them, exercising caution and circumspection.In the case of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Medicinal products and medical devices which midwives may prescribe

Article D4151-31

Midwives may prescribe for women, children and women's male partners and may obtain for their professional use the medicinal products listed by therapeutic class in tables I, II and III of appendix 41…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 9: Transmission of information for the purpose of registering persons practising or likely to practise the profession of pharmacist

Article R4221-31

The information sent, pursuant to Article L. 4221-16-1, by the bodies issuing training qualifications to the service or body responsible for registering the persons referred to in Article L. 4221-16 a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Decision

Article R4234-31

Articles R. 741-11 relating to the rectification of material errors, R. 741-12 relating to the fine for abusive recourse, R. 742-2, with the exception of the last paragraph, and R. 742-4 to R. 742-6 r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Relations with other health professions and veterinary surgeons.

Article R4235-31

Pharmacists must maintain good relations with members of the medical profession, members of other health professions and veterinary surgeons and respect their professional independence.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Board operations

Article D4233-31

In the event of a tie, the Chairman has the casting vote.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: The knowledge test referred to in article L. 811-5

Article A811-31

I.-Applications from the persons referred to in article R. 811-27 shall be sent to the secretariat of the Commission nationale d'inscription et de discipline des administrateurs judiciaires et des man…

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