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

Article L7227-33

Retirement pensions already liquidated and rights acquired before 30 March 1992 continue to be honoured by the institutions and bodies with which they were constituted or from which they were transfer…

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

Article L7227-31

Councillors to the Assembly of Martinique and members of the Executive Council shall be affiliated to the supplementary pension scheme instituted for the benefit of non-tenured public authority employ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Crédit maritime mutuel.

Article R512-36

The "organe central des caisses d'épargne et des banques populaires", the central body of Crédit Maritime Mutuel, may carry out all financial transactions on behalf of Crédit Maritime Mutuel and provi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Crédit maritime mutuel.

Article R512-37

…of understanding which is submitted to the governing bodies of the institutions concerned for approval.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Crédit maritime mutuel.

Article R512-38

In order to carry out the controls provided for in Article L. 511-31 and Article L. 512-72, the central body of savings banks and banques populaires shall carry out on-site investigations and obtain a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Crédit maritime mutuel.

Article R512-39

Société centrale de crédit maritime mutuel may carry out any financial transactions on behalf of other maritime mutual credit institutions and provide them with its services. It centralises all surplu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Remuneration

Article L6422-3

The hours devoted to the validation of acquired experience benefiting from the authorisation provided for in article L. 6422-1 constitute actual working time and give rise to the maintenance of the em…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Definitions.

Article L7111-3

A professional journalist is any person whose main, regular and remunerated activity is the exercise of his profession in one or more press companies, daily and periodical publications or press agenci…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Sponsorship.

Article L6523-3

In Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, in order to provide practical training in the company for an employee on a p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Principles

Article L7331-3

Within a maximum period of three years from the conclusion of the contract mentioned in article L. 7331-2, the salaried entrepreneur becomes a member of the activity and employment cooperative. This p…

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