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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L1543-1

…s Chapter.Article L. 1271-2 is applicable in French Polynesia in the version resulting from Law no. 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021.The second paragraph of the same article is applicable in New Caledonia a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exceptional aid to help offset the loss of revenue resulting from the introduction of the health pass

Article 919-54

…ct allocation is set by applying the following flat-rate amounts to admissions made between 14 July 2021 and 28 September 2021:- 0.75 € per entry for the fraction of entries less than or equal to 50,0…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Support measures for authors of fictional or animated cinematographic works

Article 919-1

By way of derogation from 1° of article 212-5, for applications submitted in 2021, financial assistance for the development of projects may be awarded to authors who have collaborated on the productio…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Single section

Article R1244-6

…or donations made before the first day of the thirteenth month following the promulgation of Law No 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021 on bioethics, the donor file mentioned in Article R. 1244-5 of this Code…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases

Article R3821-13

…I bis, II, III and IV of Title III of Book I of this Part, in the wording resulting from Decree no. 2021-453 of 16 April 2021 postponing the end of the application of Decree no. 2020-610 of 22 May 202…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Equity securities

Article L744-2

…04 of 24 June 2004 L. 212-2 Act 2012-387 of 22 March 2012 L. 212-3 with the exception of IV Law no. 2021-1308 of 8 October 2021 L. 212-4 to L. 212-7 Order no. 2004-604 of 24 June 2004

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exceptional aid to offset fixed costs

Article 919-83

…he form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée electronically by 31 October 2021 at the latest.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exceptional aid to programming groups and agreements

Article 919-71

…he form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée electronically by 31 October 2021 at the latest.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Salary

Article D6222-27

Young apprentices under the age of sixteen are paid the same as apprentices aged between sixteen and seventeen.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Criminal penalties

Article 1741 A

…d 384 septies-0 I to 384 septies-0 K.(2) See also livre des procédures fiscales, art. L. 228 and L. 230.

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