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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General powers

Article L2312-80

The social and economic committee ensures or supervises the management of physical or sporting activities and may decide to participate in their financing. It also issues an opinion on the conclusion…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exceptional aid to offset fixed costs

Article 919-80

Exceptional aid is awarded for each cinema.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-80

Legal public holidays are assimilated to days on which, under the laws in force, no payment may be demanded, nor any protest drawn up.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Taxes, fees or payments not provided for in the General Tax Code

Article L2333-80

…hat the municipalities or public establishments concerned introduce the fee mentioned in article L. 2333-77, the tax for the removal of household waste does not apply to campsites or caravan parks or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 809-3

For the application of article 44-1, references to the provisions of the Code général des collectivités territoriales provided for in this article are replaced by references to the provisions having t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-1

…s specified by regulation, where this Code requires service by a bailiff on the public prosecutor, civil parties, experts and witnesses and, where these persons are not in custody, on accused or convi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-7

…place the person under judicial supervision if this measure is essential to ensure one of the objectives listed in Article 144. When, other than in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of thi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 802-1

Where, pursuant to this code, the public prosecutor or a court is seised of a request which must be answered by a reasoned decision subject to appeal, in the absence of a reply within two months of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 802-3

…between, on the one hand, the physical capacity of the court and, on the other hand, the number of civil parties, that the proceedings of the hearing will be the subject, in accordance with the proced…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-5

For the application of the right of a suspected or accused person, provided for by III of Preliminary Article, to an interpreter or a translation, the present article shall apply.If there is any doubt…

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