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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-36

The examining magistrate or the judicial police officer appointed by him or authorised by the public prosecutor may request any qualified agent of a service, unit or body placed under the authority of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-41

…or in article 230-40, contest, before the president of the investigating chamber, the use of the procedure provided for in that same article. If he or she considers that the geolocation operations wer…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Holding of meetings

Article 234-1

Where the chief town of the department in which the assizes are held is not the seat of a judicial court, the judicial court referred to in articles 242,251,261-1,262,263,265,266,270,271 and 289 is th…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial organisation

Article R114-23

I.-There is an accounting office within each centre, headed by an accounting officer, who is the head of the accounting department. This accounting post may be shared by several centres under the cond…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special import provisions.

Article 23 bis

…ale, may be prohibited or regulated by joint orders issued by the Minister for the Economy and Finance, the Minister responsible for resources and the Minister for Agriculture responsible for fraud co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Transmission

Article L131-23

An endorsement on a bearer cheque makes the endorser liable under the provisions governing recourse; moreover, it does not convert the instrument into a promissory cheque.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Practical procedures and deadlines in the event of unauthorised or incorrectly executed payment transactions

Article L133-23

Where a Payment Service User denies having authorised a payment transaction which has been executed, or claims that the payment transaction has not been executed correctly, the onus shall be on his Pa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Access to payment account services held by credit institutions

Article L312-23

The rules governing access by payment institutions and electronic money institutions to payment account services held by credit institutions on behalf of other payment service providers shall be objec…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Leave of absence and maternity leave.

Article L1225-23

When childbirth occurs more than six weeks before the expected date and requires postnatal hospitalisation of the child, maternity leave is extended by the number of days running from the actual date…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Trial period.

Article L1221-23

The trial period and the possibility of renewing it are not presumed. They must be expressly stipulated in the letter of engagement or the employment contract.

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