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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-5

…c money institution, a payment institution, one of their agents, a person referred to in Article L. 525-8 or a bureau de change, fails to withdraw from circulation, prior to issuing euro banknotes rec…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of human body parts and products

Article R1542-5

…II of this Part is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, as amended by Decrees No. 2008-588 of 19 June 2008, No. 2015-1281 of 13 October 2015, No. 2016-273 of 4 March 2016, and No. 2017-63…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Checking and registering applications.

Article A123-51

…son required to be registered on a regular basis; 2° Of natural persons mentioned in article R. 123-54, listed in the Trade and Companies Register by virtue of the registration of commercial companies…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Filing and registration of the declaration

Article R6351-5

…ed for in article L. 6313-1, or the first vocational training contract provided for in article L. 6353-3, or, if applicable, an apprenticeship contract when the company has a company apprentice traini…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-5

In the event of a conviction based on one of the offences defined in articles L. 335-2 to L. 335-4-2, the court may order the total or partial, permanent or temporary closure, for a maximum period of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Admission to psychiatric care at the request of a third party or in the event of imminent danger

Article L3212-5

…olice prefect, and to the departmental commission for psychiatric care mentioned in article L. 3222-5 any decision to admit a person for psychiatric care in application of this chapter. It shall also…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title V: Provisions relating to the Central Pricing Office.

Article R250-5

…he event of a tie, the chairman has the casting vote. For each of the formations mentioned in 1° to 5° of Article R. 250-1, regardless of the number of members appointed, the Central Rates Office may…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Forward financial instruments of insurance undertakings.

Article R332-57

…y undertakings: a) In which, on the one hand, the undertaking has invested an amount in excess of 0.5% of the dispersion base defined in the first paragraph of Article R. 332-3 and in which, on the ot…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisations preserving and preparing tissues and cells from the human body for their own research programmes

Article R1243-54

…eld; 3° The origin of the samples and how they were obtained; 4° The sample preparation procedures; 5° The research project; 6° Depending on the cases provided for in Article L. 1211-2, details of con…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-50

…undertakes to perform duties in respect of that branch equivalent to those assigned by Articles L. 533-29 to L. 533-31-5 to the board of directors, the supervisory board or any other body performing…

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