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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Submission deadlines and payment deadlines.

Article R131-4

The presentation and protest of a cheque may only be made on a business day. Where the last day of the period set for the performance of the acts relating to the cheque, and in particular for the pres…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue and withdrawal of delegations

Article R131-26

The application for delegation must include: 1° A presentation of the national strategy to promote the principles of the Republican Commitment Contract referred to in article L. 131-15-2 ; 2° An offic…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: Unit-linked life assurance or capitalisation contracts.

Article R131-10

When it takes one of the measures provided for in 2° of I and 2° of II of article L. 131-4, the insurance undertaking shall make available to policyholders, members and beneficiaries, by any means and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Verification procedures with the Banque de France.

Article R131-9

The Banque de France shall inform any person carrying out the checks provided for in this sub-section that the dissemination and retention by any person of the information obtained is prohibited, subj…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Verification procedures with the Banque de France.

Article R131-7

The person consulting the file indicates the access code allocated to him. In the case of a proxy, the proxy must indicate his or her own access code and that of the payee of the cheque. The query inc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Information to the judicial authorities by the Banque de France.

Article R131-41

Applications submitted under article R. 131-40 must specify : 1° Where it concerns a natural person, his surname, forenames, date and place of birth and, where applicable, the surname used ; 2° If it…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-42

I. - The president of the federation shall authorise one or more persons from among his staff who have the appropriate technical and legal skills to: 1° Process the data contained in the database refe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Recording by bankers of cheque payment incidents due to insufficient funds.

Article R131-14

Incidents are recorded in chronological order, each assigned a number in an unbroken annual series. The records provided for in articles R. 131-12 and R. 131-13 are kept and must be able to be substan…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: Unit-linked life assurance or capitalisation contracts.

Article R131-8

The measures taken by the insurance undertaking in application of 2° of I and 2° of II of article L. 131-4 only have effect in respect of requests to deal in the contract made after the last date on w…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Single chapter: On-call duty

Article R131-2

For the application of article L. 131-3, lack of jurisdiction is raised ex officio by the judge hearing an application for the liquidation of an astreinte. Except where it emanates from a court of app…

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