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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-45

…administrators or judicial representatives appearing on the list provided for in Article R. 814-44 and who do not carry on their business in the same jurisdiction as the audited professional, one of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-42

…o an inspection, which relates to the activity for which it has been appointed, when the number of mandates thus exercised exceeds a threshold set by decree, without the period between two inspections…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-44

…shall submit for the approval of the Minister of Justice, a list of court-appointed administrators and court-appointed representatives likely to carry out inspections during the following year. This…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article R814-48

If inspectors discover irregularities relating to the management and representation of funds, securities, bills and other assets held on behalf of third parties, they shall immediately notify the publ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Accounts, deposit of funds, controls and miscellaneous provisions

Article A814-4

…th the provisions of Article R. 814-45, in order to carry out the checks on judicial administrators and judicial representatives shall concurrently and personally carry out the minimum checks provided…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 420-2

The decision rendered on the claim for restitution of seized objects or for damages presented in accordance with the provisions of article 420-1 has all the effects of an adversarial decision; it is s…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-41

If the lessor causes the lessee to subscribe or receives acceptance of the offer from the lessee without it bearing a date or if it bears a false date such as to lead to the belief that it was given a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-40

It is an offence for the lender to cause the borrower or the declared guarantors to subscribe to, or to receive from them, acceptance of the offer without the offer bearing a date or in the event that…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-44

Natural persons guilty of offences punishable under articles L. 341-37, L. 341-38 and L. 341-40 to L. 341-43 also incur as additional penalties the prohibition, in accordance with the procedures set o…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Formation of the credit agreement and the main agreement

Article L341-43

…41 or for the lessor, in breach of the provisions of article L. 313-62 for a hire-purchase contract and a hire contract with a promise to sell not to return the sums mentioned in these articles, is pu…

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