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Article L4312-7 of the French Public Health Code

I. – The Conseil national de l’ordre shall perform the duties defined in article L. 4312-2 at national level. It shall draw up the code of ethics. It shall ensure that all members of the Association observe their professional duties and the rules laid down in this code. It shall study questions or projects submitted to it by the Minister for Health. The National Council authorises its President to take…

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Article L4312-8 of the French Public Health Code

The Conseil national de l’ordre may organise the grouping of departmental or interdepartmental councils by a decision taken at a plenary session, in the following situations: 1° Operational difficulties linked to the demographic situation of the nursing profession or to a shortage of elected members of the Order; 2° Inability to carry out the public service missions entrusted to it. This decision, adopted in plenary session, organises the grouping of…

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Article L4312-9 of the French Public Health Code

Article L. 4125-1, the first three paragraphs of Article L. 4125-2, Articles L. 4125-3, L. 4125-3-1, L. 4125-4, L. 4125-5, L. 4125-7 and L. 4125-8 and L. 4126-1 to L. 4126-6 are applicable to the nursing profession under conditions laid down by regulation.

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Article L4312-10 of the French Public Health Code

Subject to the provisions of article L. 4124-6 and articles L. 145-5-2 and L. 145-5-3 of the Social Security Code, only nurses of French nationality or nationals of one of the Member States of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who are registered with the Association may stand for election.

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Article L4312-11 of the French Public Health Code

Where it transpires, subsequent to his election, that an elected member of a Council of the Bar, a Disciplinary Chamber or a Social Insurance Section has been subject, before or after his election, to one of the sanctions referred to in 3° and 4° of article L. 4124-6 of this Code and in 3° and 4° of article L. 145-5-2 of the Social Security Code, he shall be automatically declared…

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Article L4312-12 of the French Public Health Code

If an elected member ceases to hold office for any reason whatsoever, he is immediately replaced by a substitute. If there is no substitute, a supplementary election is held to fill the vacant seat as from the date on which the vacancy is established. The member thus elected shall remain in office until the date on which the term of office of the member he replaces would have expired. The…

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Article L4312-13 of the French Public Health Code

The members of the nurses’ association councils are elected in a single-round majority binominal ballot. Each pair is made up of candidates of different genders. If the Council of the Order has an uneven number of members, the member of the last elected pair drawn by lot is considered to be elected. Elected substitutes shall be of the same gender as the member they are deputising for. Notwithstanding the preceding…

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Article L4312-14 of the French Public Health Code

Councils are elected by a majority of the members present or having voted by post or electronically. A decree in the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the composition of the various councils and disciplinary chambers of the Nurses’ Association, the duration and frequency of renewal of the terms of office of their members, their operating rules and the principles governing elections to these bodies. The procedures for elections by electronic means…

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