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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Cemeteries, cinerary sites and funeral operations

Article R2223-23-3

Authorisation to remove an urn from a plot at a cemetery site is granted by the mayor under the conditions defined in Article R. 2213-40.In cinerary sites not subject to concessions, the deposit and r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Criminal provisions

Article R3124-2

Application of the stipulations of a company or establishment agreement or of a branch agreement contrary to the provisions of articles L. 3121-27 to L. 3121-33 and L. 3121-35 to L. 3121-40 is punisha…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Overseas departments, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R6152-71

Practitioners working in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon receive a special monthly allowance, not subject to contributi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local authorities governed by Article 73 of the Constitution, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R6152-529

Assistants working in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon receive a special monthly allowance, not subject to contributions…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Detention

Article D461

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article D. 113-40 du code pénitentiaire, chaque fois que la demande lui en fait ou à son initiative, le service pénitentiaire d'insertion et de probation fourn…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Protection of works and objects to which copyright or related rights are attached

Article R331-8

The electronic communications operators mentioned in Article L. 34-1 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code are required to communicate, by interconnection to the automated processing o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Investment rules

Article R214-15-2

I. - When an eligible financial security or money market instrument referred to in article L. 214-20 includes a financial contract which simultaneously meets the three conditions mentioned below, the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisations

Article R6122-25

The following health care activities are subject to the authorisation provided for in Article L. 6122-1, including when they are carried out in the form of alternatives to hospitalisation:1° Medicine…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Criminal penalties

Article R5232-21

Failure to make the information provided for in I and II of article L. 5232-5 available to the public under the conditions defined in article R. 5232-20 is punishable by a fifth-class fine. Failure to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-17

I. - In the cases provided for in Articles L. 612-39 and L. 612-40 where, on a proposal from the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the European Central Bank has ordered the total withd…

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