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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Expenses

Article L4425-29

…ne by the Corsican local authority;11° Expenditure relating to the personalised autonomy allowance ;12° Les frais du service des épizooties;13° La participation aux services d'incendie et de secours;1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
1. Board of Directors.

Article R1142-46

…de by the Office. With regard to the damages referred to in articles L. 1142-24-1, L. 1142-24-9, L. 1221-14, L. 3111-9, L. 3122-1, L. 3131-4 and L. 3135-3, it does so on the basis of proposals from th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Registration

Article A822-2

…e proof that they hold the diploma of higher accounting studies governed by the décret n° 81-537 du 12 mai 1981 ou du diplôme d'études supérieures comptables et financières ou qu'ils ont validé au moi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

…e; 9° bis Gambling or betting operators authorised on the basis ofArticle 21 of Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 relating to the opening up to competition and the regulation of the online gambling and…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Technical and financial profit-sharing

Article A132-11

…whose individual rights are in the process of being constituted.IV. - For operations in categories 12 and 14 of Article A. 344-2, the minimum amount of profit sharing to be allocated for a financial…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Annex I

Article Sommaire

…funds 11. Expenditure on behalf of third parties on co-owned, insalubrious or ruinous buildings >. 12. Transfer of surpluses from ancillary budgets 13. Debt reduction and write-offs 14. Payment of le…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
BOOK VII: SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MAYOTTE

Article L1711-4

…s Article.II. - For the application to Mayotte of the articles mentioned in I:1° In Article L. 1424-12, the second sentence of the second paragraph is deleted;2° Article L. 1424-13 reads as follows:"A…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Grants and other revenue allocated by the Local Finance Committee

Article L2334-40

…d over the following four financial years by an amount equal to 90% of the allocation calculated in 2016 in the first year and decreasing by one tenth each year thereafter. The necessary sums are dedu…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter VI: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN NEW CALEDONIA

Article L446-2

…rm resident-EU" granted by France" are deleted; b) The last paragraph is deleted; 6° In Article L. 412-2, 1°, 3°, 4°, 6°, 7°, 8°, 10° and 11° are deleted; 7° In Article L. 412-4: a) The references to…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter V: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN FRENCH POLYNESIA

Article L445-2

…rm resident-EU" granted by France" are deleted; b) The last paragraph is deleted; 6° In article L. 412-2, 1°, 3°, 4°, 6°, 7°, 8°, 10° and 11° are deleted; 7° In Article L. 412-4: a) The references to…

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