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Showing 261270 of 32070 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 28-6-2011 n° 10-19.236

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Air medical transport.

Article R6312-28

Payment for a medical transport service provided by an approved company gives rise to the issue of a supporting document, a duplicate of which is kept by the company for one year and which includes :…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Designation of a registrant and a correspondent

Article R561-28

By way of derogation from Articles R. 561-23 and R. 561-24, the persons mentioned in 1° to 6° and 7°a of Article L. 561-2 who belong to the same group within the meaning of Article L. 561-33 may agree…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 3: Public industrial and commercial services

Article L2573-28

I. - The provisions of Chapter IV of Title II of Book II of Part Two mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in French Polynesia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand co…

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

Article 28-1

I.-Category A and B customs officers, 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…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1 : Examination for admission to the probationary period, probationary period and examination to qualify as a court-appointed administrator

Article R811-28

Unless the knowledge they have acquired in the course of their professional experience is such as to make such verification unnecessary, the persons mentioned in article R. 811-27 shall appear before…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Powers

Article L5842-28

I. - Articles L. 5216-5 with the exception of II bis, V and VII, and articles L. 5216-6 to L. 5216-7-1 shall apply in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II. II. - For the appl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: The status of the sole trader

Article D526-28

I.-On pain of nullity, the act of renunciation provided for by article L. 526-25 of the French Commercial Code shall contain the following information concerning the sole trader renouncing the protect…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L532-28

In this section and for the application of the provisions relating to AIFM established in a third country :1° The AIFM is the legal person whose regular business is the management of one or more AIF;2…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Transitional measures

Article R352-28

I.-During the transitional period referred to in Article L. 352-4, the Solvency Capital Requirement referred to in Article L. 352-1 is calculated taking into account all the quantifiable risks to whic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article R512-28

The groups that may be members of the caisses and unions pursuant to Article L. 512-74 are those whose object is related to one of the activities listed in Article L. 512-68 and which are constituted…

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