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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 5: Permission to leave

Article D143-5

Persons sentenced to one or more custodial sentences of a total duration not exceeding five years and persons sentenced to one or more custodial sentences of a total duration exceeding five years when…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local authorities governed by Article 73 of the Constitution, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R6152-528

When hospital assistants move to Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin or Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, and when they return to mainland France after this ass…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Local authorities governed by Article 73 of the Constitution, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Article R6152-529

Assistants working in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon receive a special monthly allowance, not subject to contributions…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Interception of correspondence sent by electronic communications

Article 100-5

The investigating judge, the judicial police officer assigned by him or her, or the judicial police officer or investigative assistant acting under the control of that officer, shall transcribe corres…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Provisional profit and loss account for training schools and institutes.

Article R6145-59

…s, accompanied by activity forecasts, proposals for tariffs serving as a basis for invoicing the products mentioned in c and d of 2° of article R. 6145-56 for the coming financial year and proposals f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition

Article L522-5

Each payment institution is required to join a professional body affiliated to the French Association of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms mentioned in Article L. 511-29.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Guarantees granted in the exercise of the mandate

Article R2123-5

I. - The duration of the credit of hours for one quarter is equal:1° To one hundred and forty hours for mayors of communes with at least 10,000 inhabitants and deputy mayors of communes with at least…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Rules specific to contracts with a particular purpose

Article D224-58

…provided. Where no minimum level of service quality is offered, this must be stated. 2° The amounts due respectively for the activation of the electronic communications service and those due for any r…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-5

…tion for dismissal, to the damages and interest provided for in articles L. 122-14-4 et L. 122-14-5 du code du travail en cas de rupture de contrat de travail. Failure to pay these indemnities is puni…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article L351-5

…LES IN THE WAY THEY THEY ARE WRITTEN L. 314-1 to L. 314-4 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-351 du 25 mars 2016 L. 314-5 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 314-6 Resultin…

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