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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Other service providers

Article L774-37

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

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Other service providers

Article L775-31

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

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Other conditions of access and practice.

Article L512-3

…registration, insurance or reinsurance intermediaries and insurance intermediaries acting on an ancillary basis are required to provide the body that keeps the register provided for in I of Article L.…

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French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
CHAPTER III: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL.

Article L133-3

…en the exercise of activities or the operation of aircraft, products or equipment mentioned in articles…

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French Civil Aviation CodeIn force
CHAPTER I: DEFINITIONS - GENERAL RULES FOR CREATION, USE AND CONTROL.

Article L211-3

No person may operate a civil aerodrome receiving commercial traffic unless he has obtained an airport safety certificate for this aerodrome from the Minister responsible for civil aviation. The Minis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Access to the activity allowance for recipients of the specific solidarity allowance

Article L5425-3

When exercising, taking up or resuming a professional activity, the beneficiary of the specific solidarity allowance is deemed to have made a request for the activity allowance mentioned in article L.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions for the authorisation and operation of health establishments, medical biology laboratories and other organisations

Article L2142-3

Any breach of the legislative and regulatory requirements applicable to medically assisted procreation observed in an establishment, organisation, health cooperation group or laboratory, and caused by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Specific information and training obligations.

Article L4154-3

The employer's inexcusable fault provided for in article L. 452-1 of the Social Security Code is presumed to have been established in the case of employees with a fixed-term employment contract, tempo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Undeclared work.

Article L8221-3

Any person who intentionally fails to fulfil his or her obligations is deemed to have engaged in undeclared work by concealing his or her activity, by carrying out for profit an activity of production…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Organisation

Article L4422-38

The State representative in the territorial collectivity of Corsica is appointed by decree in the Council of Ministers. He represents each of the ministers and directs the State services under the con…

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