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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Metal parts.

Article R121-4

…e, electronic money institutions, payment institutions carrying out euro coin processing operations and service providers carrying out these operations in the name and on behalf of these institutions…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Information provided by the Banque de France to bankers, finance companies, electronic money institutions and payment institutions.

Article R131-44

All bankers must question the Banque de France before issuing cheque forms to a new account holder for the first time. The answers must be kept for two years.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Financial sector advisory committees

Article L785-4

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Submission deadlines and payment deadlines.

Article R131-4

The presentation and protest of a cheque may only be made on a business day. Where the last day of the period set for the performance of the acts relating to the cheque, and in particular for the pres…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R131-47

…used payment of a cheque for a reason other than the absence or inadequacy of the funds in reserve, and where the funds in reserve are insufficient to allow payment, the drawee must draw up a notice f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R131-46

…ue for the payee. This certificate states that the drawer is deprived of the right to issue cheques and that this right will only be recovered after a period of five years if the amount of the cheque…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation of the General Council.

Article R142-4

…or, the Deputy Governors, the Vice-Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and the General Councillor representing staff, shall receive an allowance for each meeting of the Ge…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of financial securities

Article R211-4

…ed electronic record-keeping device pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on a pilot scheme for market infrastructures based on distributed…

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

Article R162-4

…person who has 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 institu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Liability in the event of an incorrectly executed payment transaction

Article D133-4

…er authentication.Additional financial compensation may be agreed between payment service providers and intermediaries.

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