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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security detention and surveillance

Article 706-53-18

The regional court for secure detention shall automatically order that secure detention be immediately terminated if the conditions set out in Article

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R*441-18

The amount of the benefit is equal, for each beneficiary, to the product of the number of annuity units in his account multiplied by the service value of the annuity unit determined for the contract t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-1

When the Secretary General of the Agence française de lutte contre le dopage decides to carry out the investigations mentioned in 3° of I of article L. 232-5, he shall authorise the investigators in a…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-7

The liberty and custody judge of the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the premises to be visited are located or the liberty and custody judge of the judicial court provided for by the decree r…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-5

For the sole purpose of investigating or establishing the violations and breaches mentioned in 3° of I of article L. 232-5, gathering evidence and tracking down the perpetrators or gathering informati…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-18-2

…se persons may receive remuneration from the French Anti-Doping Agency in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down by decision of the College. The Secretary General of the French Anti-Doping…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2224-18-1

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Provisions specific to certain matters.

Article ANNEXE, art. 18

Only the following decisions are open to immediate appeal: - rejecting a request to be relieved of the duties of guardian, subrogated guardian or curator; - relieving a guardian, subrogated guardian o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Development grant.

Article L2334-18-3

…in the last year in which the commune was eligible by a coefficient equal to 90% in the first year and then decreasing by one tenth each year.In addition, when, from 2000, a commune, of which the pub…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Role of the social and economic committee

Article L1233-57-18

In companies with a central company social and economic committee, the establishment social and economic committees exercise the powers entrusted to the social and economic committee pursuant to Artic…

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