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Reglementation des cultes outre-mer (Circular NOR IOCD1121265C, Ministry of the Interior, Overseas, Territorial Collectivities and Immigration, 25 August 2011)

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A circular the French Ministry of the Interior issued on 25 August 2011 to high commissioners and prefects, setting out how religious worship regulation applies across France's overseas territories, including French Polynesia, where the 1905 law separating churches from the state never took effect. As an official government circular published through Legifrance it sits at this atlas's top tier for what it documents: a primary administrative legal text rather than a secondary description of the law, issued to implement rather than to explain the underlying decrees for a general reader.

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Reliability Tier
1
Tier one: an official circular issued by the French Ministry of the Interior and published through Legifrance, the French government's own legal database, read directly rather than through a secondary description; a primary administrative legal text, the same standing given the US State Department report cited throughout this measure.
Notes
The circular describes two coexisting overseas regimes: the 1905 separation of churches and the state, applied in some overseas territories, and the 1939 Mandel decrees, which instead created an administrative council of religious missions as the legal entity managing mission property in territories including French Polynesia, French Guiana, Wallis and Futuna, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, New Caledonia and Mayotte.
Citation
Author
Ministere de l'Interieur, de l'Outre-mer, des Collectivites territoriales et de l'Immigration
Publisher
Legifrance, Republique francaise
Publication Year
2011
URL
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/circulaire/id/33816
Source Type
government
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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