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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Provisions applicable by court order

Article L237-30

…preference dividend that has not been paid in full.A full or partial redemption of ordinary shares may be cancelled before full redemption of non-voting preference shares.Non-voting preferred shares…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Advance information of employees enabling them to make an offer in the event of the sale of a business in undertakings subject to the obligation to set up a works council

Article L141-30

Information may be provided to employees by any means, specified by regulation, likely to make the date of its receipt by the employees certain. When the information is made by registered letter with…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L217-30

…L. 217-5, nullity of the contract or any other action of a contractual or extra-contractual nature may be incurred by application of the provisions of the civil code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rules applicable to authorised establishments and organisations

Article R1243-30

The establishments or organisations benefiting from the authorisation referred to in Article R. 1243-6 may transfer tissues, their derivatives, cells or cell therapy preparations to a pharmaceutical p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article R4381-30

Registration may only be refused if the articles of association filed do not comply with the legislative and regulatory provisions governing professional non-trading companies and the practice of the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions common to events subject to declaration or authorisation.

Article R331-30

Any concentration or event may only begin after the organiser has provided the competent administrative authority or its representative with an insurance policy taken out with one or more companies ap…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 8: Agreements with host companies

Article D6325-30

In application of the second paragraph of article L. 6325-2, the employee may not spend more than half of the training time in a company other than the one employing him under the professionalisation…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 306-1

…mes mentioned in Chapter I of Book IV bis of the same code and the crimes mentioned in Article 706-73 of this Code, the court, without the assistance of the jury, may, by a judgment delivered in open…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV : Insurance for the acquisition of immovable property by means of life annuities.

Article L132-30

…e Civil Code on the assigned property. If there are heirs in the direct line of the creditors, they may only deal with the insurer after having been authorised to do so by a judgement handed down in c…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Working hours and rest periods

Article R7124-30

…x and sixteen in a modelling activity and prior selection with a view to carrying out this activity may only be authorised during half of the holidays and for the following periods: 1 Maximum daily du…

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