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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-42

…sistance has been put in place in the field of asset management on behalf of third parties;2° Up to 30% of its assets in units or shares of collective investment schemes governed by French law, of FIA…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Withdrawal and dissolution

Article R1431-19

…is distributed under the same conditions.III. - Allocation operations must take place no later than 30 September of the year following the withdrawal. Failing this, the distribution is carried out, in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article D47-6-16

…mmoning; 3° The rules relating to the extraction of detained convicts provided for in Article D. 49-30 and the declaration of address of released convicts provided for in Article D. 49-22 ; 4° Les règ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Judgment

Article R4443-6

…cation in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: 1° The third and fourth paragraphs of article R. 4234-30 do not apply; 2° In article R. 4234-33: a) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following provisions: "…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Commissioning authorisation.

Article R6312-33

Once a year, if the theoretical number of vehicles determined in accordance with articles R. 6312-30 and R. 6312-31 is greater than the number of vehicles already authorised, the Director General of t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Police powers relating to specific objects

Article L2573-19

I.-The provisions of Chapter III of Title I of Book II of Part Two mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand colu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Investigation assistants

Article 21-3

…ovisions declared unconstitutional by Constitutional Council Decision no. 2022-846 DC of 19 January 2023]. In the event of any difficulty encountered in the performance of these duties, in particular…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Transitional measures

Article R352-27

…nearly at the end of each year, from 0% for the year starting 1 January 2016 to 100% from 1 January 2023.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°-0 bis: Priority urban policy districts

Article 1383 C ter

…n I septies of Article 1466 A as well as buildings attached, between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2023, to an establishment meeting the same conditions.For properties attached to an establishment me…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2k: Companies located in priority development zones

Article 44 septdecies

…development zones defined in II, companies that are created between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2023 and that carry out an industrial, commercial or craft activity within the meaning of Article 34…

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