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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-1-2

It is forbidden for any person to: 1° Prescribing, administering, applying, transferring or offering to athletes, without a duly justified medical reason, one or more substances or methods mentioned i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and opening conditions.

Article L6325-2-1

The public or private training bodies mentioned in article L. 6325-2 may not make the enrolment of an employee on a professionalisation contract conditional upon the latter paying a financial contribu…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and special conditions

Article R1125-20-1

…by the end of the period for examining the application for authorisation referred to in Article R. 1125-17 , this shall be deemed to constitute rejection. Silence on the expiry of the time limit for…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-12

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the incident and whose articles of association aim to combat road traffic crime and to defend or assist the victims…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-11

Any association, duly declared for at least five years on the date of the events and registered with the National Office for Veterans and Victims of War under conditions laid down by decree in the Con…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-19

…or III of the Criminal Code, Chapter III of Title III of Book IV of the same Code or by the Law of 29 July 1881 on the freedom of the press committed against a person invested with a public elective…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-15

…n a place or premises open to the public or in private property for residential or professional use and which groups together several of these victims may, if it has been approved for this purpose, ex…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-16

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the events and that proposes, through its articles of association, to combat drug addiction or drug trafficking may…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-18

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years and whose articles of association propose to defend or assist victims of accidents at work or occupational diseases may exercise t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-14

…uly registered association whose articles of association propose the defence of the French language and which is approved under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat may exercise th…

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