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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specialised credit institutions

Article L775-8

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indicate…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-8

The Commercial Court, seised of a claim for payment relating to the operation of a business, may, if it makes an order and if the creditor so requests, by the same judgment order the sale of the busin…

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

Article L133-8

The Office's budget and accounts, deliberated by the Management Committee, are submitted for approval to the municipal council or the deliberative body of the public institution for inter-communal coo…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Pre-contractual information, commercial practices, contracts and credit

Article L511-8

Agents are empowered to investigate and record infringements or breaches of the provisions: 1° Of the third paragraph of article 10 of Law no. 71-1130 of 31 December 1971 reforming certain judicial an…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Private-law dispensers.

Article L6352-8

A Conseil d'Etat decree issued in accordance with articles L. 221-9, L. 223-35 and L. 612-1 of the French Commercial Code sets specific thresholds for training providers with regard to the obligation…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Guarantor guarantee

Article L752-8

I.- Subject to the provisions of II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Guarantor guarantee

Article L753-8

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the provisions of II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Hygiene of buildings and built-up areas.

Article L1331-8

As long as the owner has not complied with the obligations set out in articles L. 1331-1 to L. 1331-7-1, he is required to pay a sum at least equivalent to the fee he would have paid to the public sew…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Judgement on the application to remain in the waiting zone

Article L342-8

On pain of inadmissibility, pronounced ex officio, no irregularity prior to the hearing relating to the first extension of the holding period in the waiting area may be raised at the hearing relating…

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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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