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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
A. Allocation methods.

Article R2573-55

A commission placed under the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia sets each year the categories of priority operations eligible for the subsidies mentioned in Article R. 2573-54 and,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Acts that the tutor may not perform

Article 509

The guardian may not, even with authorisation: 1° Perform acts which involve a gratuitous alienation of the property or rights of the protected person except as stated in relation to gifts, such as th…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Search for an assignment.

Article R6152-50-5

Hospital practitioners may apply for posts for which vacancies have been published.During the assignment search period, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion will send hospital practi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 57

For the purposes of calculating the income tax due by companies that are dependent on or that control companies located outside France, profits indirectly transferred to the latter, either by increasi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 56

Mining engineers may, instead of or concurrently with tax agents, be called upon to verify the declarations of taxpayers referred to in the second paragraph of Article 34 and companies operating quarr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 54

The taxpayers mentioned in Article 53 A are required to produce, at any request from the administration, all accounting documents, inventories, copies of letters, receipts and expenditure vouchers lik…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 55

The tax department checks the returns. It may rectify the returns in accordance with the procedure set out in Article L. 55 of the Book of Tax Procedures (1). (1) See also Livre des procédures fiscale…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Article L351-5

…ICABLE ARTICLES IN THE WAY THEY THEY ARE WRITTEN L. 314-1 to L. 314-4 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-351 du 25 mars 2016 L. 314-5 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 31…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
B. Commission instituted by article R. 2573-55.

Article R2573-56

The commission mentioned in article R. 2573-55 is composed of five mayors and two presidents of groups of communes. The High Commissioner or his deputy attends the work of the commission.The commissio…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
B. Commission instituted by article R. 2573-55.

Article R2573-57

The mayors and presidents of groupings sitting on the commission provided for in article R. 2573-55 are elected by proportional representation with the highest remainder, by the college of mayors and…

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