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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Worker information and training

Article R4453-18

The employer shall draw up a workstation manual for each workstation where workers are likely to be exposed to electromagnetic fields exceeding the values triggering action identified in application o…

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

Article R131-35

The drawee to whom a cheque is presented for 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 chequ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Bodies

Article L5211-6-3

In the event of the annulment of the election of a municipal council of a municipality with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants or the annulment of the election of community councillors provided for in artic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Monitoring and control of posted workers

Article R1263-11-6

The Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment shall terminate the temporary suspension or temporary ban on the provision of services in the light of the proo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article R3551-6-5

An internal regulation, adopted by deliberation of the General Council on the proposal of the operating council, sets out the operating procedures of the Mayotte fire brigade and the service obligatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-6

Payment systems and payment service providers shall be permitted to process personal data where this is necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation and detection of payment fraud. The communicat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO NEW CALEDONIA

Article L732-1

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in New Caledonia, subject to th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L733-1

I.-Subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the righ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Article R916-1

In article R. 600-3, the words: "in mainland France" are replaced by the words: "in the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon", and the words: "in the tables in appendices 6-1 and 6-2 o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Collective decisions by members

Article L323-7

The general meeting of members may delegate all or some of the powers listed in 6°, 7°, 8° and 9° of article L. 323-6 to the supervisory body provided for in article L. 323-14 under conditions which i…

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