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

Article L163-10

…vailable funds without indicating, where this is the case, that the cheque has been issued in defiance of an injunction issued pursuant to article L. 131-73 or in breach of a prohibition issued pursua…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to non-trading property investment companies

Article L231-10

…h he knows to be fictitious are genuine or declaring that funds which have not been definitively placed at the disposal of the company have in fact been paid in; 2. Obtaining or attempting to obtain s…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Ethics

Article R261-10

…ion de protection de l'accès aux œuvres may take part in deliberations relating to a transaction concerning: 1° A company controlled, within the meaning ofarticle L. 233-3 of the French Commercial Cod…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Gift-shares made to descendants of different degrees.

Article 1078-8

In the estate of the ascendant donor, property received by children or their descendants by way of early division is set off against the share of the reserve due to their stock and subsidiarily agains…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Civil status records

Article 1055-5

…tatus records, shall be brought: 1° Either before the court within whose jurisdiction the person concerned resides; >or 2° Or before the court within whose jurisdiction the birth certificate of the pe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Expert

Article R7343-104

The expert, who may be a natural person or a legal entity: 1° Provides proof of insurance to cover its liability and, in the case of a legal entity, of its legal status; 2° Has the organisational, hum…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Safeguards.

Article L622-10

…y time during the observation period, the court, at the request of the debtor may order the partial cessation of business.Under the same conditions, at the request of the debtor, the administrator, th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the Order.

Article L4232-10

…s practising in La Réunion;5° A delegation comprising pharmacists practising in Mayotte.In the absence of a sufficient number of pharmacists to form a delegation, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and in th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Brokers.

Article R131-10

The amount of the guarantee granted to a sworn goods broker may not be less than the higher of the following two sums: 1° The average monthly sales figure, including taxes and net of fees, achieved by…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction and powers of Deputy European Public Prosecutors

Article 696-109

For offences within their jurisdiction, the Deputy European Public Prosecutors shall exercise, pursuant to Articles 4 and 13 of the aforementioned Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017,…

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