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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Setting up a collective shop

Article L125-4

Each member of the economic interest grouping or company is the holder of shares that cannot be dissociated from the use of a pitch determined by the constitutive contract or the Articles of Associati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: The profession of genetic counsellor

Article L1132-4

Genetic counsellors may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which awarded them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the evide…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Special rules for certain categories of intermediaries

Article L513-4

Applications for membership of the approved professional association are answered within two months of the date of receipt by the association of a complete application. If the approved professional as…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Openings, mutations and transfers.

Article L3332-4

A change in the person of the owner or manager of a café or public house selling alcohol for consumption on the premises must be declared in writing at least fifteen days in advance, in the same way a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE VII: Exceptional provisions specific to the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin départements.

Article L670-4

At the close of the judicial liquidation operations, the court may, exceptionally, impose on the debtor a contribution intended to discharge the liabilities in the proportions it determines. To set th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: Referral to the commission de surendettement des particuliers (household over-indebtedness commission)

Article L721-4

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION OF THE SECOND AND THIRD SUBPARAGRAMS OF ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION TO THE TERRITORIAL AUTHORITIES OF GUYANA AND MARTINIQUE

Article LO7311-4

The deliberation provided for in Article LO 7311-2 shall be transmitted to the Prime Minister and to the representative of the State in the territorial collectivity.When it relates to the adaptation o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Common law provisions.

Article R312-4-4

I. - The concepts of recurring transfers and regular transfers referred to in article L. 312-1-7 refer to any transaction credited to the customer's account by the same issuer at least twice during th…

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In force

Article Annexe 9-6

JURISDICTIONS HAVING JURISDICTION, PURSUANT TO III OF ARTICLE L. 442-4, PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO PERSONS WHO ARE TRADERS OR CRAFTSMENSEAT OF THE COURTS judiciaryRESSORTParis.Ressort of the High Court…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Tattooing products

Article L5437-4

Legal entities declared criminally liable, under the conditions set out in Article 121-2 of the French Penal Code, for the offences defined in Article L. 5437-2 of this Code shall be liable, in additi…

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