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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R3115-23

This section does not apply to military aircraft and warships as well as to aircraft and ships specifically chartered by the military authority. The officers carrying out health inspections and issuin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Approved funds.

Article R214-192

I. - Notwithstanding article R. 214-32-29, a general-purpose professional fund may invest :1° Up to 50% of its assets in units or shares referred to in 3° of I of article L. 214-24-55 of the same coll…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Governance of investment firms

Article R533-18-5

I.-The persons mentioned in Article L. 533-29-3 shall draw up a table grouping together the information relating to their establishments by State or territory, mentioned in 1° of the same article, as…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional aid to help people return to work in 2021

Article 919-33

…between 2018 and 2021;2° Undertake to continue distributing cinematographic works between 2021 and 2022;3° Have not benefited from aid under an annual distribution programme or structural aid, as pro…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Obligations relating to the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, the freezing of assets and prohibited lotteries and games

Article L775-36

…umn of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 561-1 Order 2009-104 of 30 January 2009 L. 561-2 with the exception of its 1° quater, 6° bis, 9° bis only for gaming or bett…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Definitions and scope of application

Article L224-26-1

Articles L. 224-28, L. 224-29, L. 224-31, L. 224-33, L. 224-34, L. 224-40, L. 224-42 and L. 224-42-1 do not apply to interpersonal communications services not based on numbering within the meaning of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable persons

Article 8 ter

The members of sociétés civiles professionnelles constituted for the joint practice of the profession of their members and operating in accordance with the provisions of loi n° 66-879 du 29 novembre 1…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Creation of a new commune

Article L2113-21

The methods for calculating the financial indicators provided for in articles L. 2334-4, L. 2334-5, L. 2336-2 and L. 5211-29 are, as far as new communes are concerned, specified by decree in the Conse…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article R354-1

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Social protection

Article L7227-32

For the application of articles L. 7227-29 to L. 7227-31, the contributions of the territorial collectivity of Martinique and those of its elected representatives are calculated on the amount of compe…

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