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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance

Article D5134-157

The flat-rate State financial aid referred to in Article L. 5134-108 is paid by the National Agency for Social Cohesion and Equal Opportunities. The agency may entrust the management of this aid to th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance

Article D5134-158

State aid is paid from the creation of the adult relay post for the periods during which the post is actually occupied. In the case of part-time employment, it is paid in proportion to the working tim…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial assistance

Article D5134-159

Subject to the cases of termination of the agreement mentioned in article D. 5134-154 and the production of the supporting documents provided for in the agreement, the aid is paid for the duration of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Shared functions

Article R6132-15

I.-The convergent hospital information system of the regional hospital grouping includes identical applications for each of the functional areas. The establishments involved in the grouping use a uniq…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Decisions ordering investigative measures.

Article 150

A decision ordering or modifying an investigative measure is not subject to opposition; it may be appealed or appealed to the Supreme Court independently of the judgment on the merits only in the case…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1584

The sale may be made purely and simply, or under a condition either suspensive or resolutory. It may also have as its object two or more alternative things. In all these cases, its effect is regulated…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 2 : Affixing of the executory clause by the court registry

Article 1569

The deed countersigned by lawyers and bearing the executory formula, or the decision of refusal by the registrar, shall be delivered or sent to the applicant by simple letter.The duplicate of the appl…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Book V: Out-of-court settlement of disputes

Article 1543

It takes place in accordance with a conventional procedure for seeking an agreement, followed, where appropriate, by a procedure for the purposes of judgment.It may also take place in the context of t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Separation as to property.

Article 1536

Where the spouses have stipulated in their marriage contract that they will be separated as to property, each of them retains the administration, enjoyment and free disposal of his or her personal pro…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 151

The production of a copy, reduced to the operative part, of the judgment declaring the absence or ordering an enquiry into the absence of the father and mother, grandparents or grandmothers of one of…

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