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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-25

…en-ended investment companies known as "SICAVs", or of unit trusts.General-purpose investment funds may comprise different classes of units or shares under conditions set by the fund rules or the SICA…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation, amendment and duration of the contract

Article L224-25-6

…aders who offer, directly or through a third party, a supply of digital content or digital services may not make the conclusion or amendment of the terms of the contract governing that supply subject…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Gift-shares made to descendants of different degrees.

Article 1078-10

The rules laid down in article 1078-9 shall not apply where a child who has consented to his own descendants being allotted in his stead subsequently himself makes, with the latter, a shared gift inco…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Doctor applying for authorisation to practice.

Article R4623-25-3

…I of article L. 4111-2 of the Public Health Code, who has passed the knowledge verification tests, may be recruited by an occupational health and prevention service, approved as an extra-hospital org…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation, amendment and duration of the contract

Article L224-25-8

…a non-geographic, fixed, toll-free number. No additional cost other than that of the telephone call may be charged for these services in respect of this telephone call. Where the consumer calls these…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to all financing bodies

Article L214-172

…fer of the said receivables. However, at any time, all or part of the recovery of these receivables may be carried out directly by the management company in its capacity as legal representative of the…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 5: Foreign nationals authorised to reside in France under family reunification arrangements

Article L423-17

…om the death of one of the spouses, the residence permit issued to the spouse of a foreign national may, for a period of three years following authorisation to reside in France for the purposes of fam…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions relating to the insurance of vehicles in international traffic and certain other vehicles.

Article R*211-25

…n the case of vehicles belonging to a foreign State, the evidence provided for in article R. 211-23 may be replaced by the production of a certificate stating that the vehicle belongs to that State an…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 231-17

…ions; 7° The quality of audience information; 8° The organisation of themed evenings and festivals; 9° The number of screenings in the original version organised within establishments in the second gr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Changes relating to powers.

Article L5211-17

Municipalities that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may at any time transfer, in whole or in part, to the latter, some of their competencies whose transfer is not…

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