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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29

…ning the French or foreign nationality of natural persons. Questions of nationality are preliminary before any other administrative or judicial court, with the exception of criminal courts including a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative decisions

Article 27-1

…authorisation to lose French nationality, loss or forfeiture of this nationality, are issued and published in the forms laid down by decree. They have no retroactive effect..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative decisions

Article 27

Reasons must be given for any decision declaring inadmissible, postponing or rejecting an application for acquisition, naturalisation or reinstatement by decree as well as an authorisation to lose Fre…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-4

The public prosecutor is required to act if requested to do so by a public authority or by a third party who has raised the nationality objection before a court which has stayed the proceedings pursua…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative decisions

Article 27-3

…d for in articles 23-7 and 23-8 or forfeiture of French nationality are taken, the interested party being heard or called upon to produce his observations.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-5

Judgments and rulings handed down in matters of French nationality by the ordinary law judge have effect even with regard to those who were neither parties nor represented. Any interested party is, ho…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-1

…l courts competent to hear disputes over the French or foreign nationality of natural persons shall be determined by decree.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction of the courts and proceedings before them

Article 29-3

…s the right to act to have it decided that he or she has or does not have French nationality. The public prosecutor has the same right with regard to any person. He is a necessary defendant in any act…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Late payment of taxes recovered by tax administration accountants

Article 1730

…rge of 10% for any delay in the payment of sums due in respect of income tax, social security contributions collected in the same way as income tax, council tax on second homes and other furnished pre…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Late payment of taxes recovered by tax administration accountants

Article 1731 A

The late payment interest provided for in

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