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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Managing Director.

Article R1413-15

…ears. The age limit for the Director General is sixty-seven. He manages the agency. He performs all acts that are not reserved to the Board of Directors by virtue of the provisions of articles R. 1413…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article R824-6

…d on the list mentioned in 5° of Article L. 824-5 the performance of verifications or investigative acts, it shall draw up a mission order indicating the identity of its holder and the verifications a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Preliminary provisions.

Article L210-6

…ot result in the creation of a new legal entity. The same applies to an extension. Persons who have acted on behalf of a company in formation before it has acquired legal personality are held jointly…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L1311-14

…esident of the regional council of Alsace and the president of the regional council of Lorraine for acts subject to publication in the department of Moselle are authorised to receive and authenticate,…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Calculation of time limits.

Article 641

Where a time limit is expressed in days, the day of the act, event, decision or notification which causes it to run shall not count. Where a time limit is expressed in months or years, the time limit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Cancellation and rectification of civil status records

Article 99-2

The persons authorised to perform the duties of civil registrars to draw up the acts mentioned in articles 98 to 98-2 may proceed with the administrative rectification of purely material errors and om…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Liability insurance

Article L512-6

All insurance or reinsurance intermediaries and all insurance intermediaries acting in an ancillary capacity must take out an insurance policy covering them against the financial consequences of their…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article D112-29

…by decision published in the Bulletin officiel du cinéma et de l'image animée, that categories of acts other than those provided for by the order mentioned in Article…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1182

Confirmation is the act by which the person who could rely on nullity waives it. This act mentions the subject-matter of the obligation and the defect affecting the contract. Confirmation can only tak…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-41

…rd country in turn requests the French Government to extradite the same individual on account of an act prior to the extradition, other than that tried in France, and not connected with that act, the…

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