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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Specific procedures

Article R285

Article R. 50-28 is worded as follows: "Art. R. 50-28.-The two-month period provided for in Article R. 50-17 is increased by one month for persons who do not live in the collectivity or New Caledonia…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reorganisation and winding-up measures for Community credit institutions

Article R613-25

I. - The administrator or liquidator appointed in the context of proceedings initiated in respect of a credit institution having its registered office in France shall cause an extract of the following…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 4: Recovery and control

Article L115-19

Fees recalled in the cases mentioned in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Credit for hours worked

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 Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personal data protection committees and competent authority

Article L1123-7

I.- The committee gives its opinion on the conditions for the validity of the research, particularly with regard to :-the protection of individuals, in particular the protection of participants ;the a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Company mutual funds

Article L214-164

I. - The regulations governing the fund set up to manage sums invested in application of Title III of Book III of Part III of the Labour Code relating to employee savings plans provide for the establi…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R3133-12

Subject to the provisions of articles R. 3133-13 to R. 3133-17, the payment period shall run from the date of receipt of the request for payment by the contracting authority or, if the concession cont…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Conditions for recognising the evidential value of documents containing personal health data created or reproduced in digital form and for destroying documents stored in a form other than digital

Article L1111-26

A digital copy of a document referred to in article L. 1111-25, which meets the conditions of reliability set out in the second paragraph of article 1379 of the Civil Code, has the same evidential val…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV: Social debt repayment contributions paid to the social debt repayment fund (Caisse d'amortissement de la dette sociale)

Article 1600-0 I

The contribution for the repayment of the social debt to which sales of precious metals, jewellery, works of art, collectors' items and antiques are subject is established, controlled and collected in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 5: Fresnes centre

Article R53-8-75

The provisions of this section are applicable to the socio-medico-judicial security centre of the Fresnes national public health establishment, subject to the adaptations provided for in Article R. 53…

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