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Showing 491500 of 25879 articles for Art. CE 7-5-1986 n° 39426

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Work release, semi-liberty, temporary absences and escorted absences

Article 723-6

A convicted offender may, under the conditions of l'article 712-5, exceptionally obtain an escorted exit permit.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Work release, semi-liberty, temporary absences and escorted absences

Article 723-1

The sentence enforcement judge may provide that the sentence will be served under the semi-liberty or work release scheme either in the event of a sentence of one or more custodial sentences whose tot…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5: Amounts paid under insurance contracts in the event of death

Article 757 B

…charge and the policyholder up to the fraction of the premiums paid after the age of seventy. By exception, sums, annuities or values of any kind owed directly or indirectly by an insurer, due to the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Provision of cash as part of a payment transaction

Article R112-7

When providing the service referred to in I of Article L. 112-14, the following is punishable by a fifth-class fine 1° Provide cash against payment by means of a payment instrument included in the lis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-77

The sentenced person's individual file provided for by Article D. 49-29 is kept by the registry of the Paris enforcement judge. A copy of all or part of this file is kept by the registry of the compet…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-75

…pplying the provisions of Article 706-22-1 giving concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction to the Sentence Enforcement Judge of the Paris Judicial Court, the Paris Sentence Enforcement Court and the Paris…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-76

The requests of the sentenced person provided for by

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-78

The Sentence Enforcement Judge of the Paris Judicial Court may chair meetings of the Sentence Enforcement Commission when the situation of a sentenced person whose case he is monitoring pursuant to Ar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-79

In urgent cases, the Paris enforcement judge may rule without the opinion of the competent enforcement judge pursuant to article 712-10.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Special allocation for the financing of first numbering operations.

Article R2563-7

The exceptional allocation provided for in article L. 2563-2-2 is paid to the communes under the conditions set out in this sub-section.

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