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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter 1: Administrative tax commissions and tax abuse committee

Article 1651

…taxpayers and two representatives of the administration with at least the rank of divisional inspector or regional inspector. For the matters referred to in articles 1651 A and 1651 B, one of the tax…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1107

…for divorce is made by writ of summons or by petition delivered or addressed jointly by the parties to the court registry and contains, on pain of nullity, the place, date and time of the orientation…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1109

…the second and third paragraphs of Article 840 and of Article 841, may authorise one of the spouses to summon the other spouse to divorce and to a hearing on orientation and provisional measures set w…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1116

The requests referred to in the second paragraph of article 267 of the Civil Code are admissible only if the parties justify by any means their remaining disagreements. The notarial draft referred to…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1115

The proposal to settle the spouses' pecuniary interests, provided for in article 252 of the Civil Code, contains a summary description of their assets and specifies the claimant's intentions regarding…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1108

The matter is referred to the family court, at the request of either party, by delivering a copy of the document initiating proceedings to the court registry. Provided that the date of the hearing is…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: Other legal divorce proceedings

Article 1106

Subject to the rules laid down in the first two sections of this chapter, proceedings shall be brought, heard and determined in accordance with the ordinary written procedure applicable before the jud…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1 quinquies : Capital gains realised on contributions to companies or restructuring of professional non-trading companies

Article 151 octies

I. Capital gains subject to the articles 39 duodecies to 39 quindecies and realised by an individual on the occasion of the contribution to a company subject to a real taxation system of a sole propri…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: The commission for the examination of draft federal regulations relating to sports facilities

Article R142-10

…on within two months of the date on which the draft regulations and their impact statement are sent to it by the Minister for Sport.At its reasoned request, the federation shall submit a new draft tak…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: The commission for the examination of draft federal regulations relating to sports facilities

Article R142-11

…es the federation concerned of the opinion of the commission examining federal regulations relating to sports facilities, accompanied, where applicable, by the opinion of the Conseil national d'évalua…

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