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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Criminal provisions

Article L773-47

…of II and III, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Criminal provisions

Article L774-47

…isted in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Permanence of care in health care institutions

Article R6111-43

The call for candidates referred to in I of article R. 6111-42 includes at least the following elements: 1° The definition of the permanent care assignment; 2° The obligations linked to its exercise,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Receipts, warrants and storage receipts

Article L522-37-4

…by a storage receipt, on pain of its creation being unenforceable. The realisation and judicial allocation of the pledge of goods represented by a storage receipt are governed by Articles 2346 to 2348…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 469-1

Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 464, the court may, after finding the accused guilty, either exempt him or her from sentencing or defer sentencing under the conditions…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: The fixed fine procedure applicable to certain offences

Article 495-24

…or an exonerated fine, they send their reasoned request to the competent public accountant. In this case, article 495-20 is not applicable. If the competent public accountant considers the request to…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Relations with the statutory auditors

Article L612-43

…the undertakings mentioned in A of I of Article L. 612-2, other than the bodies mentioned in 3° and carrying out activities of a hybrid nature, 4° bis, 5°, 6°, 7°, 8° and carrying out activities of a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Settlement of claims arising from employment contracts.

Article L625-4

When the institutions mentioned in article L. 143-11-4 du code du travail refuse for any reason whatsoever to settle a claim appearing on a statement of claims arising from an employment contract, the…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Chapter III: Resources and means

Article R1233-4

…under which the agency's territorial delegate in the département is the sole point of contact for local and regional authorities for projects supported by the Agence nationale de la cohésion des terri…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Prevention engineers.

Article L8123-4

…l directorates for companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment, when providing technical support to the labour inspection officers mentioned in article L. 8112-1 in their inspections, i…

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