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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Performance of the contract

Article L224-40

Where a fixed-term contract for electronic communications services provides for its automatic extension, the consumer shall have the right to terminate the contract at any time from the date of the ex…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Banking, financial and insurance contracts

Article L242-40

…with their customers are laid down by the provisions of Chapter I of Title V of Book III of the Monetary and Financial Code.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Default by the borrower

Article L312-40

…promise of sale or a hire-purchase contract, the lender is entitled to demand, in addition to the return of the property and the payment of due and unpaid rents, compensation which, depending on the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous and transitional provisions

Article L1424-40

The provisions of this chapter do not preclude any of the powers conferred on joint bodies by the laws and regulations relating to the local civil service.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 408-1

The property or rights of a minor may not be transferred to a trust.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40-5

…on's escape, the public prosecutor shall immediately inform the victim of the acts that led to the detention or the victim's family of the escape, if the escape is likely to put them at risk and unles…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40-3

…ith no further action taken following this report. The public prosecutor may, under the conditions set out in Article 36, order the public prosecutor to initiate proceedings. If he considers the appea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Publicity and policing of the hearing

Article 400-1

For the trial of the war crimes mentioned in Chapter I of Book IV bis of the Criminal Code and the crimes mentioned in Article 706-73 of this code, the court may, by judgment given in open court, orde…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Financial organisation

Article R114-40

An order of the Minister for the Interior and the Ministers for the Budget and Sport sets out :a) the administrative organisation ;b) The presentation of the budgets and their execution;c) the general…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Provisions relating to sports betting bans

Article R131-40

I. - The personal information relating to gambling operations recorded by an online gaming or betting operator held by the Autorité Nationale des Jeux, to which a delegated sports federation may have…

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