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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Creation of delegated communes within a new commune

Article L2113-17

…nd Article 36 of Law no. 82-1169 of 31 December 1982 relating to the administrative organisation of Paris, Marseille, Lyon and the public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation are applicable…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 3: Residence permit commission

Article R432-7

…r the matter to the residence permit commission pursuant to article L. 432-13 is the Prefect or, in Paris, the Prefect of Police.The request for an opinion is accompanied by the documents required to…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: House arrest

Article R751-1

…n asylum seeker under house arrest pursuant to article L. 751-2 is the departmental prefect and, in Paris, the police prefect.The same authority is competent to have the foreign national placed under…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Examination for admission to the probationary period, probationary period and examination to qualify as a judicial representative

Article A812-2

The qualifications and diplomas awarded on completion of a second cycle of higher education or of an equivalent level, provided for in 4° of Article R. 811-7, which allow completion of the professiona…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Arrest and surrender

Article 627-5

…rrender and that he will appear, within a maximum of five days, before the public prosecutor at the Paris court of appeal. The public prosecutor also informs the person that he or she may be assisted…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Departmental committee for psychiatric care

Article R3223-8

I.-For the application of the provisions of 1° of article L. 3223-1 and the last paragraph of article L. 3213-9, the Commission is informed of decisions to admit a person to psychiatric care taken pur…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Permanence of care in general medicine

Article R6315-4

Doctors take part in on-call duty and regulation activities on a voluntary basis. If the Departmental Medical Council notes that there are no or insufficient numbers of volunteer doctors, it will seek…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Formation of the jury

Article 261

…up this preparatory list, persons who have not reached the age of twenty-three during the following calendar year will not be included. When the prefectoral allocation order provides for a grouping of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Obligations of the management company, the entity responsible for centralisation and the statutory auditor

Article L214-24-45

…sions of Title III of Book II of the Commercial Code, where the management company or the custodian can demonstrate serious difficulties in performing the duties of liquidator, these duties shall be p…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Insurance against technological disasters

Article L128-1

…Book V of the Environmental Code and damaging a large number of properties, the state of technological disaster is declared by a decision of the administrative authority which specifies the areas and…

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