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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-1

…llowing procedures.After the mayor, the deputies then the municipal councillors rank.Subject to the last paragraph of articles L. 2122-7-1 and L. 2122-7-2 and the second paragraph of article L. 2113-8…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions

Article 768

…ll examine the pleas in support of those claims only if they are raised in the discussion. In their last submissions, the parties must repeat the claims and pleas presented or relied on in their earli…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 2: Valuation of assets

Article R343-12

…nts is: a) For forward financial instruments traded on recognised markets within the meaning of the last paragraph of A of article R. 332-2, the value of the last quotation; b) For instruments traded…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Age of admission.

Article L4153-1

…in general education when they are on information visits organised by their teachers or, during the last two levels of collège education or during lycée education, when they are following the observat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Transfer of the registered office.

Article R229-10

…period within which bondholders may request redemption of their securities is three months from the last date of the publication formalities or receipt of the last registered letter, as the case may b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Enforcement of criminal sentences

Article D48-5-5

In accordance with the last paragraph of Article 711, where the parties agree, applications relating to the enforcement of a sentence, submitted under the conditions laid down in Articles 702-1,703,71…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Filing and administrative control.

Article R3313-4

…e Social Security Code following a procedure likely to guarantee the conditions provided for in the last paragraph of article L. 3313-3 of this code, an identification code for the agreement is issued…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure before the liberty and custody judge

Article R3211-36

…e parties that the documents sent by the institution pursuant to III of article R. 3211-33-1 or the last paragraph of article R. 3211-35 may be consulted at the court registry. The patient, if he is n…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Procedure before the liberty and custody judge

Article R3211-37

…Detention Judge decides to refer the matter to himself pursuant to II of article L 3222-5-1 or the last paragraph of I of article L. 3211-12, he shall give the patient concerned by the seclusion or r…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to practice within internal-use pharmacies

Article R5126-5

…hose States, either full-time or part-time, for a period equivalent to two years full-time over the last ten years, may also practise in an in-house-use pharmacy; 2° after 1 June 2017 and until 1 June…

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