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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Safety at sporting events

Article L332-8

…n, possession or use of rockets or fireworks of any kind in a sports arena during the staging or public broadcasting of a sporting event is punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of 15,000…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Fixed installations

Article L312-8

Authorisation to open to the public may not be given before the expiry of a period set by regulation.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Checking and recording offences

Article L425-8

Customs officers, New Caledonian officials responsible for applying the regulations on the fight against doping and the protection of athletes' health, and officers and agents of the criminal investig…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Freedom of dissemination

Article L333-8

The transfer of the right to exploit a sporting event or competition to an electronic public communication service does not prevent the partial or full broadcast of this event or competition by anothe…

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

Article L131-86

The Banque de France shall provide information to any person who, on receiving a cheque for the payment of a good or service, wishes to check that the cheque was properly issued in accordance with thi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibition on cash payment of certain claims

Article L112-8

Deliveries of cereals by producers to cooperatives are paid for by cheque or transfer to a credit institution, a payment institution or an electronic money institution as part of the provision of paym…

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

Article L131-84

The drawee who has refused payment of a cheque for lack of sufficient funds or who has closed an account on which cheque forms have been issued or who has registered a stop payment order for loss or t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-8

Any stipulation of interest in the cheque is deemed unwritten.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custody account and registration in a shared electronic recording system

Article L211-8

The securities custodian may, under the conditions laid down in the General Regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers, entrust all or part of its tasks to a third party.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Special rules relating to real estate investment funds

Article L214-83

Unitholders or their successors may not cause the division of the real estate investment trust.Unitholders are liable for the debts of the co-ownership only up to the amount of the fund's assets and i…

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