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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Exercise of control

Article L612-23-1

I. - The persons referred to in 1°, a of 2°, 4°, 9° and 10° of A of I of Article L. 612-2 shall notify the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of the appointment and reappointment of the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Industrial establishments

Article 1499 A

The rental value of fixed assets acquired as a result of contributions, demergers or mergers of companies carried out before 1976 may not be less than two-thirds of that used to establish the property…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable to natural persons

Article 798

In this case, bulletins no. 2 and no. 3 of the criminal record must not mention the conviction. The judgment granting rehabilitation may, however, order that the conviction be removed from the crimina…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Installation and use of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-82

Computer tickets and dematerialised admission rights may be created outside the ticket offices of the cinematographic establishments to which they give access, provided that they are registered, at th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Installation and use of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-83

Computer tickets and dematerialised admission rights are issued in "immediate entry" or "pre-sale" mode under the following conditions: 1° Immediate entry sales concern tickets issued in the period im…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Installation and use of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-84

Exhibitors of cinematographic establishments that accept multiple-admission cinema access packages identify each of these packages with a specific price category that they communicate to the Centre na…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Installation and use of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-80

…efore the installation of computerised systems, a document mentioning:1° Their name or company name and address;2° The type of computerised system and its number in the type series;3° The company name…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Installation and use of computerised ticketing systems

Article D212-81

The computerised systems shall record all information relating to ticket receipts for the cinemas in which they are installed.Where a cinema operator is forced to use printed tickets in the event of a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Adoption judgment

Article 354

…he transcription takes the place of the adopted person's birth certificate. It states the day, time and place of birth, the child's sex, surname and forenames as they appear in the adoption decree, th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 3: Filing of accounting documents and declaration of confidentiality of annual accounts

Article A123-61-1

A standard model for the annual accounts confidentiality statement provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 123-111-1 is set out in Annex 1-5 to this book.A standard model for the declaration…

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