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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Sociétés civiles de placement immobilier (non-trading property investment companies), sociétés d'épargne forestière (forestry savings companies) and groupements forestiers d'investissement (forestry investment groups)

Article R214-176-2

…nt, subject to the following adaptations: 1° In article R. 214-163 : a) The first paragraph is replaced by the following paragraph: "The exchange and transfer of woodland and forests which forest inve…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of acquiring French nationality

Article 22-2

The provisions of the preceding article shall not apply to a married child.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Assignment of receivables as security

Article 2373-2

Sums paid to the assignee in respect of the assigned claim shall be set off against the secured claim when due. If this is not the case, the assignee retains them under the conditions set out in artic…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title I: Provisions relating to Book I

Article 2494

…1-7 and 21-11 are applicable to a child born in Mayotte to foreign parents before the entry into force of the loi n° 2018-778 du 10 septembre 2018 pour une immigration maîtrisée, un droit d'asile effe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-2

…all reasonable steps to obtain the best possible result in executing orders, taking into account price, cost, speed, likelihood of execution and settlement, size, nature of the order or any other cons…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Acquisition of French nationality by marriage

Article 21-2

…ed that at the date of this declaration the community of life, both affective and material, has not ceased between the spouses since the marriage and that the French spouse has retained his or her nat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Civil servants and public service employees

Article 28-2

…A and B tax department agents, specially designated by order of the ministers responsible for justice and the budget, taken after the assent of a commission whose composition and operation are determ…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L3121-2-2

By way of derogation from 8° of Article L. 4211-1, in vitro diagnostic medical devices and their accessories intended to perform self-diagnostics, as defined in point 5 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU)…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Calculation for cinema screenings

Article 211-27

Calculation rates are reduced by 10%.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L773-22

…r no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 522-11 Act no. 2018-700 of 3 August 2018 L. 522-11-1 with the exception of its penultimate paragraph Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 L. 522-11-2 Act 2018-700 o…

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