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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Budgetary control

Article A211-58-1

For the purposes of examining the initial budget, amending budgets and the financial account, the budget controller shall receive the draft documents provided for inArticle 175 of Decree no. 2012-1246…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Suspicious transaction reports

Article L621-17-5

It is punishable by the penalties laid down in Article 226-13 of the Criminal Code for the directors or officers of the persons mentioned in Article 16 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European P…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 716-5

In order to enforce a sentence of imprisonment or confinement, the public prosecutor and the public prosecutor may authorise law enforcement officers to enter the home of the convicted person in order…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Concerted exercise of powers

Article D1111-5

The election of the representatives mentioned in article D. 1111-4 takes place by post.The ballot papers are sent or deposited at the prefecture of the department, in accordance with the procedures la…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Employee information.

Article R3341-5

The employee savings book provided for in Article L. 3341-6 is drawn up on any durable medium and is given to each employee when his or her employment contract is concluded. It includes:1° A reminder…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 46

Where no registers have existed, or where they have been lost, proof shall be received both by titles and by witnesses; and, in such cases, marriages, births and deaths may be proved both by the regis…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VI : Resource equalisation

Article L2336-5

I. - After deduction of an amount equal to the adjustments made the previous year and the share provided for in article L. 2336-4, the resources of the Fonds national de péréquation des ressources int…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L123-40

The authorities mentioned within this sub-section shall control that the undertakings falling within their area of competence comply with the conditions necessary for access to their activity or for t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Criminal provisions.

Article R331-45

Apart from the case, punishable underarticle L. 411-7 of the Highway Code, of organising races of land motor vehicles on roads open to public traffic without authorisation, organising a concentration…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Remuneration of the ad hoc agent, the conciliator, the agent for the implementation of the agreement and the expert.

Article R611-47

The terms of remuneration of the ad hoc agent, the conciliator, the agent for the execution of the agreement and the expert mentioned in article L. 611-14 include the criteria on the basis of which it…

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