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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 13: Access to payment accounts

Article L133-39

I. - Where the payment is initiated by means of a card-linked payment instrument, the payment service provider managing the account shall, at the request of one of the payment service providers issuin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Implementing provisions.

Article L6222-33

The implementing measures for this section are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, in particular the conditions under which the apprentice may perform dangerous work and the specific safety tr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Protection and promotion of maternal and child health.

Article L2421-3

I.-For its application in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the words "failing which, it may be requested from the departmental maternal and child protection service" are deleted from ar…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Private security guards

Article R15-33-29-1

In the performance of their duties, private security guards are required to hold their card or approval decision at all times and to produce it to any person who requests it. He must also have the wor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Private security guards

Article R15-33-27-1

The private security guard is approved by order of the prefect for a renewable period of five years. The approval order specifies the nature of the offences that the private security guard is responsi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article R511-2-1-3

The statutory auditor shall be notified annually of the outstanding loan agreements granted pursuant to 3 bis of article L. 511-6. In a statement attached to the management report, the statutory audit…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IV: RIGHT TO STAY ON FRENCH TERRITORY

Article L542-3

When the right to remain on French territory has ended under the conditions laid down in Articles L. 542-1 or L. 542-2, the asylum application certificate may be refused, withdrawn or its renewal refu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Public health and environmental whistleblowing

Article L4133-3

The persons mentioned in Article L. 4133-1 may not be subject to the measures mentioned in Article L. 1121-2. They benefit from the protections provided for in I and III of Article 10-1 and in Article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Company accounts

Article L232-3

In sociétés anonymes, the documents referred to in article L. 232-2 are analysed in written reports on the development of the company, drawn up by the board of directors or the management board. The d…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L111-3

In all cases where the insurer reinsures against the risks it has insured or transfers them to a securitisation vehicle mentioned in article L. 310-1-2, it remains solely liable to the insured.

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