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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition

Article R261-6

The Commission for the Protection of Access to Works comprises nine members: 1° One member of the Court of Cassation, nominated by the First President of the Court of Cassation, Chairman; 2° One membe…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Criminal penalties

Article L341-50

…ly accompanied by the appointment of an administrator or liquidator; 3° The prohibition, in accordance with the procedures set out in the Article 131-27 of the Criminal Code, to hold a public office o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Forfeiture rules

Article L518-24

Subject to III of articles L. 312-20 of this Code, L. 132-27-2 of the Insurance Code and L. 223-25-4 of the Mutual Code, sums deposited in any capacity whatsoever with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consign…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to investment service providers

Article L573-1

I.-It is an offence punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €375,000 for any natural person to provide investment services to third parties as a regular occupation without having been au…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Payment service providers

Article L572-5

I. - Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 521-3, failure to comply with the prohibition imposed by article L. 521-2 is punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros.…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L4363-2

Illegal practice of the profession of hearing aid acoustician, optician-monitor, ortho-prosthetist, chiropodist-orthotist, ocularist, epithesist or orthopaedic-orthotist is punishable by one year's im…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article L641-3

…hs of I and by III of Article L. 622-7, by the articles L. 622-21 and L. 622-22, by the first sentence of article L. 622-28 and by l'article L. 622-30. The official receiver may authorise the liquidat…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-28

The request from the Minister for Defence for an extension of the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation of an invention which is the subject of a patent application, including when the latt…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972 bis

…e same code and employee savings funds mentioned in article L. 214-163 of the same code, with the exception of funds in one of these categories which reserve the subscription or acquisition of their u…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1458

…s and companies in which they hold a majority of the capital and to which they entrust the performance of grouping and distribution operations;1° bis Sociétés coopératives de groupage de presse and so…

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