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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common law provisions.

Article R312-4-2

The specific ceilings, mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 312-1-3, applicable to the amounts of fees charged to persons having subscribed to the offer mentioned in the second paragraph of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Radiation.

Article R123-136-1

When the registrar has entered in the register a request to regularise the file in application of article R. 123-125-1, he shall automatically strike off the name of the person who has not regularised…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R773-21

…2019-1235 of 27 November 2019R. 533-16-2n° 2017-1253 of 9 August 2017II. - For the application of I:1° In article R. 533-1 B, the words "R. 511-15 to R. 511-16-4" are replaced by the words "R. 511-16…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R774-21

…2019-1235 of 27 November 2019R. 533-16-2n° 2017-1253 of 9 August 2017II. - For the application of I:1° In article R. 533-1 B, the words "R. 511-15 to R. 511-16-4" are replaced by the words "R. 511-16…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Membership rules

Article D3141-16

…eements mentioned in article D. 3141-15, approved by the Minister responsible for labour, indicate: 1° The reasons justifying the implementation of special affiliation rules; 2° The criterion or crite…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General principles relating to research involving the human person

Article L1121-12

For each piece of research mentioned in 1° or 2° of Article L. 1121-1, the dossier submitted to the Committee for the Protection of Individuals and, where applicable, to the competent authority, shall…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rules governing the formation and performance of contracts

Article R252-1

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event of recognition of impairment of judgement

Article 706-135

Without prejudice to the application of articles L. 3213-1 and L. 3213-7 of the Public Health Code, when the investigating chamber or a trial court issues a judgment or ruling declaring a person to be…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rights of foreign employees.

Article L8252-1

…way as an employee duly employed with regard to the employer's obligations as defined by this Code: 1° For the application of the provisions relating to pre- and post-natal employment ban periods and…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Transmission of information for the purpose of registering persons practising or likely to practise the profession of nurse

Article R4311-105

…the service or body responsible for registering the persons referred to in Article L. 4311-15 are : 1° The civil status details of the holder of the evidence of formal qualifications or of the student…

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