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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Information exchange

Article L413-4

The conditions under which the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée may receive from the tax authorities all information relating to the revenue generated by the companies subject to its con…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 164

…the Republic may, for serious reasons, lift the prohibitions laid down: 1° By Article 161 to marriages between relatives in the direct line where the person who created the alliance is deceased; 2° (…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VIII: Mutual insurance group companies and affiliation agreements

Article R322-164

Any mutual insurance group company formed in breach of articles R. 322-160 to R. 322-163 is null and void. The provisions of the second paragraph of article R. 322-90 and those of article R. 322-91 sh…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 184

Any marriage contracted in contravention of the provisions contained in articles 144, 146, 146-1, 147, 161, 162 and 163 may be challenged, within thirty years of its celebration, either by the spouses…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Conditions of practice

Article R743-166

Unless a specific derogation is provided for by the decree amending the jurisdiction of a commercial court, the steps required by Article R. 743-163 of the clerk of the court now having jurisdiction m…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Offences relating to cheques and other non-cash money instruments

Article L163-4

…o manufacture, acquire, hold, transfer, offer or make available equipment, instruments, computer programmes or any data designed or specially adapted to commit the offences referred to in 1° of Articl…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IX: Special schemes

Article 296 quater

Not applicable in Guadeloupe, Réunion and Martinique: 1° Les articles 298 sexdecies G and 298 sexdecies H; 2° The other provisions relating to value added tax insofar as they refer to transactions car…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Direct taxes and similar levies

Article 1763 C

…of association provide that the unit holders or members will be able to benefit from the tax advantages provided for in 2° of 5 of article 38 and to the articles 163 quinquies B, 150-0 A, 209-0 A and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Identification of accounts and treatment of over-indebtedness

Article R721-27

…donia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands by the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 131-72 and the second paragraph of Article L. 163-6, the Institut d'émission d'o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article R131-35

…payment, issued on an account whose holder is subject to a ban imposed in application of article L. 163-6, must, when the date of presentation of the cheque falls within the period of application of t…

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