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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibition on offering advantages

Article L1453-5

Offering or promising benefits in cash or in kind, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, to persons mentioned in article L. 1453-4 is prohibited for any person providing health services, pro…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L381-5

…upplementary occupational pension funds.Supplementary occupational pension funds established in the form of a public limited company are exempt from the levy provided for in article L. 232-10 of the F…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions applicable to tourist offices set up as a public industrial and commercial establishment.

Article R133-1

…with legal personality and financial autonomy are applicable to tourist offices constituted in the form of a public industrial and commercial establishment mentioned in the second paragraph of Articl…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 2 : Obligations relating to the issue of a cinema licence

Article R211-17

The work or document for which a cinematographic licence has been issued is represented in the form in which it was presented and viewed with a view to such issue.The work or document for which a cine…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exclusion of non-specialised cinemas

Article D311-12

Public performances likely to result in exclusion from the benefit of financial aid are recorded in accordance with the forms and procedures mentioned in…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

Article L612-4

…elate to only one invention or to a plurality of inventions linked together in such a way that they form a single general inventive concept. Any application which does not comply with the provisions o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions

Article 765

…fession, domicile, nationality, date and place of birth; b) If the defendant is a legal person, its form, name, registered office and the body that legally represents it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Rendering of accounts and termination of guardianship.

Article 810-8

…ing the estate. Completion may not take place until this period has expired, in accordance with the forms prescribed in the first paragraph of Article 810-3.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Community of movables and acquests.

Article 1501

…rom successions and gifts. They retain, in all cases, the right to seize the assets that previously formed their pledge. They may even pursue payment against the whole of the community where their deb…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1835

…st be drawn up in writing. In addition to the contributions of each shareholder, they determine the form, object, name, registered office, share capital, duration and operating procedures of the compa…

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