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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions relating to oxygen or mixtures other than air

Article A322-91

The conditions for diving with oxygen and mixtures other than air are set out in annexes III-17 a, III-17 b, III-17 c, III-18 a, III-18 b and III-18 c.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Exceptional aid to help offset the loss of revenue resulting from the introduction of the health pass

Article 919-53

Direct allocations are awarded to distribution companies that meet the conditions of article 221-4 for the distribution of cinematographic works that:1° Were released in cinemas between 14 July 2021 a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Increased rates for calculating sums representing automatic aid

Article 919-15

For the period between 29 December 2021 and 26 April 2022, the calculation rates are set at :- 141.06% when the amount of revenue generated by feature films is less than or equal to €307,500;- 132.43%…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Communal property

Article L2542-27

As an exception to the provisions of article L. 2223-17, on an exceptional basis, when a thirty-year, fifty-year, hundred-year or perpetual plot, granted before 11 November 1918 to persons who, on 22…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions relating to exceptional support for companies producing and distributing cinematographic works during the period of resumption of theatrical exhibition of cinematographic works

Article 914-1

In order to encourage the resumption of theatrical exhibition of cinematographic works, the methods for calculating the sums representing the automatic financial aid to which production companies and…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

Article 913-6

…same expense or expenses relating to the same contract may not give rise simultaneously to the allocation of aid from the compensation fund and the benefit of a support measure linked to the covid-19…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article D48-8

Financial penalties may be transmitted, for the purpose of enforcement, to any Member State of the European Union in which the sentenced person has his habitual residence, possesses property or income…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Compensatory benefits.

Article 278

In the event of divorce by mutual consent, the spouses set the amount and terms of the compensatory allowance in the agreement drawn up by private deed countersigned by lawyers or in the agreement tha…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 8: Miscellaneous

Article A444-27

…of an inventory of fixtures at a cost shared between the lessor and the lessee listed under number 112 in table 3-1 gives rise to the collection of a fee based on the surface area of the rental prope…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Invalidity.

Article R322-91

…f the company or of acts and deliberations subsequent to its incorporation is extinguished when the cause of the nullity ceased to exist before the application was lodged or, in any event, from the da…

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