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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L352-2

For the application of article L. 321-1 in French Polynesia and New Caledonia, references to the Commercial Code are replaced by references to locally applicable provisions having the same effect.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Implementing measures

Article L412-2

Where a European regulation contains provisions which fall within the scope of this title, a decree in the Council of State shall specify that these provisions, together with those of the European reg…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Life mortgage and transfer advance loan

Article L315-11

…e borrower. Until the offer is accepted by the borrower, no payment in any form whatsoever may be made by the lender to the borrower or on the borrower's behalf, or by the borrower to the lender, in r…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Consumer credit

Article L341-1

…aph, a creditor who grants credit without providing the borrower with pre-contractual information under the conditions set out in article L. 312-12 or, for account overdraft transactions, in Article L…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation and performance of the contract

Article L341-9

A lender who has not complied with the formalities prescribed in the last paragraph of article L. 312-92 and article L. 312-93 may not claim from the borrower the sums corresponding to the interest an…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation and performance of the contract

Article L341-12

If the lender or seller claims or receives, in breach of the provisions of article L. 312-25 and, for an affected credit agreement, those of article L. 312-50, from the borrower or buyer a payment in…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation and performance of the contract

Article L341-13

Having direct debit forms signed on bank accounts containing clauses contrary to the provisions of article L. 312-25 and, for an affected credit agreement, those of article L. 312-50 is punishable by…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 6: Life mortgage

Article L341-55

The provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 315-11 are stipulated on pain of nullity of the contract.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Penalties for intermediaries

Article L354-6

The following shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in Article L. 354-1, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table b…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter V: Life mortgage and transfer advance loan

Article L315-23

When the lender is led to request the cancellation of the contract, it may demand the immediate repayment of the capital paid in, as well as the payment of accrued interest.Until actual settlement, th…

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