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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Obligations of the guarantor

Article R7123-32

As soon as it is established that the modelling agency is in default, the holder of one of the claims defined in article R. 7123-20 may send the guarantor a request for payment by registered letter wi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medical health centres.

Article D6124-419

Throughout the day, there is at least one nurse for every five beds in the children's section and one nurse for every 5 cots in the infants' section. Nurses or nursery nurses may provide care for chil…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L743-2

…t-hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In the wording resulting from L. 212-1 A Order no. 2009-15 of 8 January 2009 L. 212-1 Ordinance no. 2004-604 of 24 June 2004 L. 212-2 Act 2012-387…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking, payment services and electronic money

Article L753-4

…nstitutions and the Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française shall, between 1 June and 31 July, at the invitation of the High Commissioner and in the presence of the Institut d'é…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking, payment services and electronic money

Article L752-4

…Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonian Post and Telecommunications Office) shall take part, between 1st June and 31st July, in negotiations convened by the High Commissioner and in the presence of the Ins…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Financial instruments

Article L742-2

…hand column of the same table: Applicable articles In their wording resulting from L. 212-1 A Order no. 2009-15 of 8 January 2009 L. 212-1 Ordinance no. 2004-604 of 24 June 2004 L. 212-2 Act 2012-387…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article R1431-21

…hment for cultural or environmental cooperation, the board of directors shall meet no later than 30 June of the year following the dissolution, in order to vote on the administrative account and to se…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Common section

Article A212-121

Candidates who obtain an average of 10 out of 20 or more in all the tests defined in article A. 212-120 are offered final admission to the examination for the common part of the third-degree state dip…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exceptional aid to help people return to work in 2021

Article 919-38

The granting of exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of national framework scheme no. SA.59722 authorised by the European Commission by decisions of 9 December 2020, 20 May 2020 C (2020) 3460…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Demergers

Article L236-21

Article L. 236-9 I is applicable to demergers carried out solely between sociétés par actions. Articles L. 236-10 and L. 236-11 are applicable to the demergers referred to in Article L. 236-20. Articl…

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