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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the devolution of surnames and customary names

Article 311-24-2

…of legal age may use one of the names provided for in the first and last paragraphs of article 311-21. With regard to minor children, this option is exercised by both parents exercising parental auth…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-21-1

Any association, professional union or trade union of employees in the branch concerned that has been duly registered for at least two years on the date of the events and whose statutory purpose inclu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 5: Remedies and limitation periods

Article L232-24-2

The acts taken in application of 16° of I of article L. 232-5 may be appealed against by the parties referred to in article L. 232-24 before the Court of Arbitration for Sport alone as part of the app…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-20-2

The judicial authority may, at the discretion of the public prosecutor, communicate to the French Anti-Doping Agency any information it gathers in the course of legal proceedings which may give rise t…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue and withdrawal of delegations

Article R131-26-2

…ing to the disciplines concerned, the delegation contract and the order mentioned in article R. 131-26-1 automatically cease to have effect.

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue and withdrawal of delegations

Article R131-28-2

The delegation contract is amended in the event of the partial withdrawal of a delegation entrusted to a federation. It is also amended when changes to the documents appended to the contract are such…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Liability in the event of an incorrectly executed payment transaction

Article L133-22-2

If the payment service provider providing a payment initiation service is responsible for the non-execution, defective execution or late execution of the payment transaction, it shall immediately comp…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Reimbursement of a payment transaction ordered by the payee or by the payer who gives a payment order via the payee

Article L133-25-2

The payer and his payment service provider may agree in the deposit account agreement or in the framework agreement for payment services that the payer is not entitled to a refund where he has given h…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: UCITS

Article L214-2-2

Any UCITS established under foreign law must be notified to the Autorité des marchés financiers by the competent authority of its home Member State before its units or shares are marketed in France or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Investor information

Article L214-23-2

I. - UCITS shall transmit, either directly or via the management company which manages them, the information concerning them to an approved body with legal personality responsible for managing a singl…

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