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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Group governance system.

Article L356-19

The participating and parent undertakings referred to respectively in the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 356-2 : 1° Set up a risk management system at group level. This system shall be appl…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Lien on claims arising from transactions

Article L513-11

…gislative provisions to the contrary, and in particular those of Book VI of the French Commercial Code : 1. Sums arising from loans or similar claims, exposures, securities and deposits referred to in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions.

Article L3215-2

The director of an establishment referred to in Article L. 3222-1 is liable to six months' imprisonment and a fine of €7,500 if he or she: 1° Admit a person to psychiatric care pursuant to 1° of II of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to the use of administrative police powers in resolution proceedings

Article L311-31

The collège de résolution shall carry out the automatic transfer provided for in 4° of I of Article L. 311-30 under the conditions set out in the first, second and third paragraphs of I of Article L.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L526-40

Where they carry out other activities pursuant to Article L. 526-3, electronic money institutions shall prepare separate accounting information relating to the activities of issuing and managing elect…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Disciplinary chambers of first instance and regional and inter-regional councils.

Article L4124-14

The doctors and dental surgeons of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon are subject to the jurisdiction of the regional council and the disciplinary chamber of first instance of the competent council of the Norma…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Surrender by life insurance companies of annuities below a certain minimum amount.

Article L160-5

Notwithstanding any contractual provisions to the contrary, life insurance companies may, under the conditions and in accordance with a scale laid down by order of the Minister for the Economy and Fin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-38

The powers of the special delegation are limited to acts of purely conservatory and urgent administration. Under no circumstances is it permitted to commit municipal finances beyond the available reso…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L511-11

…tal or a paid-up endowment, the minimum amount of which, between one million and five million euros depending on the authorisation granted, is defined by order of the Minister for the Economy. This or…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Information exchange

Article L413-1

Article L. 1246-1 of the Labour Code governs the reciprocal communication by labour inspectors, agents of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, of regional cultural affairs directorates,…

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