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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Procedure applicable to employees with fixed-term employment contracts.

Article L2421-8

…xpiry of a fixed-term employment contract does not result in its termination until the Labour Inspector, after having been informed in accordance with article L. 2412-1, has established that the emplo…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 2: Participation conditions specific to defence or security concession contracts

Article R3123-8

Where the conceding authority decides to authorise economic operators from countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area to take part in the concession award procedure, a candidat…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: STAYING IN A WAITING AREA

Article R342-8

The order of the liberty and custody judge is made within twenty-four hours of its referral or, where the needs of the investigation so require, within forty-eight hours thereof. It is notified on the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions specific to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article L772-8

Articles L. 532-16 to L. 532-27 do not apply to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Automated national register of refusals to take blood samples

Article R1232-8

A certificate of registration on the register will be sent to the applicant as soon as their registration is recorded, unless they expressly state that they do not wish to receive a certificate.

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Withdrawal of assignment to one or more regulated jobs

Article R4733-8

The employer or the head of the establishment shall inform the Labour Inspectorate monitoring officer referred to in Article L. 8112-1 of the measures taken to put an end to the situation of serious a…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Actions for nullity of partition

Article 888

A co-sharer who has alienated his lot in whole or in part is no longer entitled to bring an action based on fraud, mistake or violence, if the alienation he has made is subsequent to the discovery of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Actions for nullity of partition

Article 887

The partition may be annulled on the grounds of violence or fraud. It may also be annulled on the grounds of error, if the error concerned the existence or the proportion of the rights of the co-share…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Other obligations

Article 866

With the exception of deeds in criminal matters and deeds from lawyer to lawyer, bailiffs are required to draw up their deeds and minutes in two originals; one, exempt from all tax formalities, is giv…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Other obligations

Article 860

…d administrative authorities must, for deeds and judicial decisions that contain provisions subject to land publicity and for attestations after death, draw up in duplicate an extract, known as an ext…

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