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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: French Development Agency

Article R773-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable art…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: French Development Agency

Article R774-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Designation of digital safe

Article L122-22

A provider who avails itself of a digital safe service as defined in 1° to 5° of article L. 103 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code and who fails to comply with the obligations set o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable to certain offences against the rules governing public land transport services

Article 529-5-1

Officers of the public prosecutor's office at one or more police courts, the list and jurisdiction of which shall be determined by decree, shall be competent to issue enforcement orders for the increa…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Policyholder and beneficiary information and pricing

Article A132-4

The information memorandum referred to in article L. 132-5-2, the notice referred to in article L. 132-5-3 or, where they are equivalent to the information memorandum in accordance with article L. 132…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Collection of data and information

Article R444-17

The representative bodies mentioned in 2° of Article L. 444-5 are the Chambre nationale des commissaires de justice, the Conseil national des greffiers de tribunaux de commerce, the Conseil national d…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Local tax on companies operating ski lift equipment.

Article L2333-53

…ent ; 4° To expenses incurred by local ski clubs for the technical training of their young members; 5° To the financing of actions for the prevention of accidents in the mountains carried out by organ…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions

Article 311-5

…ion:1° Fiction;2° Animation;3° Creative documentary;4° Audiovisual adaptation of a live performance;5° Magazine of particular interest of an essentially cultural nature;6° Videomusic.The works must be…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 9: Special conditions for the "burnt" label

Article D6124-177-50

…° At least one occupational therapist; 3° At least one speech therapist; 4° At least one dietician; 5° At least one psychologist; 6° At least one prosthetist or orthotist. Nurses and masseur-physiothe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article 706-53-10

…same request may be made to the investigating judge when registration has been made on the basis of 5° of Article 706-53-2. The request for deletion is inadmissible as long as the entries concerned re…

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