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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Availability of savings

Article L224-5

On the due date mentioned in article L. 224-1 : 1° The rights corresponding to the sums mentioned in 3° of article L. 224-2 are issued in the form of a life annuity; 2° The rights corresponding to the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Granting of exploitation licences and collection of income from the exploitation of rights

Article L324-5

…rganisations with the same object, to exercise collectively the rights provided for in articles L. 213-1 and L. 215-1 by concluding general contracts of common interest with users of phonograms or vid…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Foreign nationals receiving a pension for an accident at work or occupational disease

Article L426-5

…miliale" ("private and family life") for a period of one year. The condition set out in article L. 412-1 does not apply..

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Certification and publication of the accounts of trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article D2135-5

…and associations thereof, and of the employees' or employers' associations mentioned in Article L. 2135-2 include a balance sheet, an income statement and notes to the accounts drawn up in accordance…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Private health establishments, private medico-social establishments, cosmetic surgery facilities and health cooperation groups, social and medico-social cooperation groups with legal personality under private law

Article R5126-51

…nder the conditions laid down in their articles of association, pharmacists belonging to one of the categories of practitioners mentioned in 1° of article L. 6152-1 may manage an internal-use pharmacy…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Conditions and prohibitions on the use of freelance administration services

Article L1254-5

The personal services activities referred to in Article L. 7231-1 may not be the subject of a freelance administration employment contract.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Negotiations

Article 1112

…good faith.In the event of fault committed in the negotiations, compensation for the resulting loss may not be intended to compensate for either the loss of benefits expected from the contract not con…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Educational assistance

Article 1195

Summons and notifications shall be made by the court registry by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. The judge may, however, decide that they shall be made by a bailiff's writ, where ap…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 14: Maintenance and repair of medical equipment

Article R224-52

The obligation set out in article

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Election of representatives of local authorities and public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status

Article R1213-5

…ten representatives of the municipalities and their alternates are elected by the College of French Mayors, by a one-round majority list ballot, with complete lists submitted, without adding or deleti…

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