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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The guarantee fund.

Article R334-8

The provisions of Article R. 334-7 do not apply to mutual insurance companies fully reinsured by a union referred to in Article L. 322-26-3, or to agricultural mutual insurance companies or funds exem…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Admissibility of lists of candidates and individual applications

Article D1441-24-3

I. - The personal data mentioned in articles D. 1441-22-2, D. 1441-22-3 and D. 1441-22-4 are kept as follows: 1° Until the end of the term of office : a) For the representative of the trade union or p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-14

The employees' trade union organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level and those whose statutory vocation is of a national and cross-industry nature and which have recei…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Taxes specific to resorts

Article L2333-52

The communes or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation which, on 31 December 1983, collected the special tax on gross receipts from the sale of transport tickets by companies operating s…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 3: Seizure in the hands of a third party

Article R221-24

If the third party is present at the seizure operations, the bailiff shall verbally remind him of the content of the mentions in 3°, 5° and 6° of article…

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

Article 1771 A

The debtor mentioned in article 1671 who has neither declared nor paid to the public accountant the deductions he has made in application of the same article 1671, if the delay exceeds one month. In t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Relations between the adopter and the adopted person

Article 346

Adoption between ascendants and descendants in the direct line and between brothers and sisters is prohibited. However, the court may order adoption if there are serious grounds which the interests of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3 : Relations between the adopter and the adopted person

Article 347

The adopter or adopters must be fifteen years older than the children they propose to adopt. However, where the difference in age is less than that provided for in the preceding paragraph, the court m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Summons to appear, immediate appearance and deferred appearance

Article 394

The public prosecutor may invite the defendant to appear before the court within a period of not less than ten days, unless the defendant expressly waives this in the presence of his lawyer, and not m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Summons to appear, immediate appearance and deferred appearance

Article 395

If the maximum term of imprisonment provided for by law is at least equal to two years, the public prosecutor, where it appears to him that the charges brought are sufficient and the case is ready for…

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