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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Fixing the term and duration of the contract.

Article L1242-8

An agreement or an extended branch agreement may set the total duration of a fixed-term employment contract. This duration may have neither the purpose nor the effect of permanently filling a job link…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Control.

Article L1271-16

Information relating to the persons mentioned in 1° and 3° of the A of article L. 1271-1 paid by pre-financed universal service vouchers under the conditions defined in article L. 1271-12 is communica…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Criminal provisions.

Article L1312-4

It is punishable as an offence under article L. 1454-8 for companies providing services or manufacturing or marketing products covered by compulsory social security schemes, as well as for companies o…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Article L1441-3

The health project is territorial. The health democracy territories provided for in 1° ofarticle L. 1434-9 may cover the territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, or be smaller or larger than it. They ar…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Compensation for the consequences of health risks

Article L1526-9

For its application in Wallis and Futuna, article L. 1142-21 is replaced by the following provisions: Art.L. 1142-21 -When the competent court, seised of a claim for compensation for the harmful conse…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: Bodily injury.

Article L126-1

Victims of acts of terrorism committed on national territory, persons of French nationality who are victims of such acts abroad, including any public official or any member of the armed forces, and th…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Relations between lessors and lessees of buildings used for the hotel trade

Article L311-4

On the departure of the tenant or the transferee of the leasehold right, the premises are returned to the owner in the state in which they are, without the owner being able to demand that the premises…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transferable debt securities.

Article L228-51

The representatives of the masse shall be designated in the contract of issue or by the general meeting of bondholders or, failing that, by court decision, at the request of any interested party. When…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-35

Without prejudice, where appropriate, to the more serious penalties laid down in relation to offences against State security, anyone who has knowingly infringed one of the prohibitions laid down in ar…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VIa: Customs detention and criminal proceedings

Article L716-12

In the event of a repeat offence of the offences defined in Articles L. 716-9 to L. 716-11, or if the offender is or has been bound by an agreement with the injured party, the penalties incurred shall…

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