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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Organisation and internal control

Article L511-65

The head of the risk management function may not be removed from office without the prior approval of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board or any other body exercising equivalent supervisory…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation

Article R1432-138

The Chairman of the Committee, on his own initiative or at the request of a full member of staff, may call in experts to be heard on one of the items on the agenda. Experts do not have the right to vo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia.

Article R930-1

…123-171-1, R. 123-209 to R. 123-219, D. 123-235, D. 123-236, R. 127-1 to R. 134-17, R. 143-23, R. 145-9 to D. 145-19, R. 145-22 to D. 146-2. Articles R. 123-220 to R. 123-34-1 only apply insofar as…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of mandates at the Assembly of French Guyana

Article L7125-20

…e of the duties of president of the Assembly of French Guyana is determined by applying the rate of 145% to the reference term mentioned in Article L. 7125-17. It may be increased by 40%, provided tha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting of gifts.

Article 861

Where the return is in kind and the condition of the objects given has been improved by the act of the donee, he must be taken into account for this, having regard to what their value was increased at…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Gifts made by marriage contract to the spouses and to unborn children of the marriage.

Article 1085

If the statement referred to in the preceding article has not been appended to the deed containing the gift of the present and future property, the donee will be obliged to accept or repudiate this gi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Estimates and contracts.

Article 1792

Every builder of a work is liable as of right, to the master or purchaser of the work, for damage, even resulting from a defect in the ground, which compromises the solidity of the work or which, affe…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VII: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN THE FRENCH AUSTRALIAN AND ANTARCTIC TERRITORIES

Article L367-4

…return him, at the request of the High Administrator, without delay and at his own expense, to the point where he began to use that person's means of transport, or, if this is impossible, to the Stat…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Evocation.

Article 568

…asure, or which, ruling on a procedural objection, has terminated the proceedings, it may evoke the points not decided if it considers that it is in the interests of justice to give the case a final s…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article L2224-7

…of water intended for human consumption includes all or part of the abstraction, protection of the point of abstraction as well as the treatment of the raw water.II.-.Any service providing all or par…

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