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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO MAYOTTE

Article L5831-2

For the application to Mayotte of these provisions: 1° The reference to the department, the overseas department, the region or the overseas region is replaced by the reference to the Department of May…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to currency

Article L732-6

…wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in New Caledonia, subject to the adaptation provisions provided for in II:Applicable articlesIn their wording resulting fromL.…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to currency

Article L733-6

…icles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptation provisions set out in II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to currency

Article L734-6

I.- Are applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptation provisions provided for in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-1

The act of accepting, holding or using any unauthorised monetary sign intended to replace coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France is punishable in accordance with article R. 642-2 of the Fr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-4

…as received counterfeit or falsified coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France and refuses to hand them over or have them handed over to the Banque de France or the public institution La Monn…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-3

Using coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France or issued by foreign or international institutions authorised for this purpose as a medium for any form of advertising is punishable in accorda…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-2

Refusing to accept coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France according to their value is punishable in accordance with article R. 642-3 of the French Penal Code.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Offences relating to currency.

Article R162-5

…ste, an electronic money institution, a payment institution, one of their agents, a person referred to in Article L. 525-8 or a bureau de change, fails to withdraw from circulation, prior to issuing e…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Right to an account

Article R312-6-1

…een days from the date of the notice of receipt, or the applicant's hand-delivery of an application to open an account, shall be deemed to constitute a refusal to open the account. On expiry of this p…

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