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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Common provisions

Article L1453-13

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of sections 3 and 4 of this chapter, and in particular: 1° The definition of the health services referred to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions.

Article D6124-137

The medical staff working in a neurosurgery inpatient unit include:1° At least two qualified doctors specialising in neurosurgery ;2° Anaesthetists on the basis of a protocol agreed with the neurosurg…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Seller's lien.

Article L141-13

The publication of the extract or notice made pursuant to the preceding article must, on pain of nullity, be preceded either by the registration of the deed containing the transfer, unless it is an au…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-130

Where the capital increase, whether by issuing new equity securities or by increasing the nominal amount of existing equity securities, is carried out by capitalising reserves, profits or share premiu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Placement under electronic surveillance

Article 723-13

The sentence enforcement judge may withdraw the decision for home detention under electronic monitoring either in the event of non-compliance with the prohibitions or obligations provided for in artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Supervision, inspection and discipline.

Article L811-13

A judicial administrator who is the subject of criminal or disciplinary proceedings may be provisionally suspended from performing his duties by the judicial court of the place where he is established…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Institutions and services authorised to carry out banking transactions

Article L773-13

Article L. 518-1, in the version resulting fromOrder no. 2010-420 of 27 April 2010, is applicable in New Caledonia subject to the replacement of all occurrences of the words: "la Poste, under the cond…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Institutions and services authorised to carry out banking transactions

Article L774-13

Article L. 518-1, in the version resulting fromOrder no. 2010-420 of 27 April 2010, is applicable in French Polynesia subject to the replacement of all occurrences of the words: "la Poste, under the c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The conditional obligation

Article 1304-7

The fulfilment of the resolutory condition extinguishes the obligation retroactively, without calling into question, where applicable, acts of conservation and administration.Retroactivity does not ta…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Coordination of powers between the European Public Prosecutor, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors and the French judicial authority

Article 696-135

Where, in the cases referred to in Article 25(6) of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017, the public prosecutor to whom the investigation has been referred refuses t…

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