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French General Tax CodeIn force
19° decies : Tax reduction for rental investments and affordable rented accommodation

Article 199 septvicies

…ers domiciled in France within the meaning of l'article 4 B who acquire, between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2012, a new home or a home in a future state of completion benefit from an income tax re…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Transitional and common provisions

Article L133-17

…pplication for classification within the meaning of article L. 133-13 of this code was submitted by 31 December 2017 at the latest and declared complete by the prefecture by 30 April 2018 at the lates…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 7: Heat and cooling distribution

Article L2224-38

…ght into service, and revised every ten years. For networks commissioned between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2019, the master plan referred to in this II shall be drawn up before 31 December 2021.I…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: External action by local and regional authorities

Article L1115-4-2

…lic law within the meaning of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supp…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Information concerning prisoners and their relations with the outside world

Article D428

…authorities who are qualified to know about it. In accordance with dispositions de l'article D. 214-31 du code pénitentiaire, la communication de ces renseignements à des tiers par l'administration pé…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Retirement.

Article L1237-5-1

…than that set in the first paragraph of article L. 351-1 of the same code, cease to have effect on 31 December 2009.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative schemes

Article L1333-11

…f bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record and automated processing of personal data covered byarticle 31 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, with t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Legal structures

Article L6223-1

…lating to professional partnerships; 3° a société d'exercice libéral governed by law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable to requests for information issued by the French services

Article R49-36

…ccessible in an automated data processing system, the services and units mentioned in Article 685-9-31 may ask the competent service of the requested State to forward the information to them, in urgen…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Aid for redeployment and retraining measures

Article R5522-90

For the application of article R. 5123-31 in Mayotte, the second paragraph reads as follows: "The allowance ceases to be paid when, from the age stipulated in article 2 of order no. 2002-411 of 27 Mar…

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