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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Continuing training

Article D1442-9

Employee industrial tribunal members benefiting from the leave provided for in article D. 1442-7 are not taken into account: 1° When determining the number of beneficiaries of training leave, as provi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R1161-9

…e healthcare professional, the doctor or pharmacist in charge of the programme, the treating doctor and the prescribing doctor where applicable. These elements may take the form of documents, material…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Authorisation procedure

Article R1322-9

Before the holder of the authorisation referred to inarticle R. 1322-8 makes natural mineral water available to the public, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency shall, within two months…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Formalities

Article R521-9

…or transfers of goodwill include pledged trademarks or service marks, industrial designs or models and software exploitation rights and where the pledges of such goodwill include patents for inventio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Administration of establishments in the network of chambers of commerce and industry.

Article R712-9

The supervisory authority may automatically enter compulsory expenditure, and in particular: 1° Staff costs; 2° Loan repayments; 3° Taxes, levies or any charge provided for by a legislative or regulat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: Fire and rescue service administrative board and fire and rescue service administrative and technical committee (R)

Article R1424-9

Voters vote for a complete list, without adding or deleting names and without changing the order of presentation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Solidarity grant for the equipment of local authorities and their groupings affected by climatic or geological events

Article R1613-9

…s likely to be granted has been determined, the distribution of subsidies between local authorities and groupings in the same département is established on the basis of maximum subsidy rates applicabl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Cemeteries

Article R2223-9

The town council may decide to allocate all or part of a cemetery for the deposit or burial of urns and the scattering of the ashes of cremated bodies..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Issuing and enforcing financial penalties pursuant to the Framework Decision of the Council of the European Union of 24 February 2005

Article D48-9

…ed by the authority competent to enforce financial penalties, containing the following particulars: 1° Identification of the authority which imposed the financial penalty and of the authority competen…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions applicable to offences leading to the loss of driving licence points

Article A37-9

The characteristics of the notice of offence referred to in Article A. 37-1 are as follows: I.-On the left-hand side, details are given of the issuing department, the nature, place and date of the off…

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