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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Election of employee representatives

Article D112-17

Proofs of office, ballot papers bearing the names of the titular candidates and their substitutes, the explanatory circular and the ballot envelopes shall be given to voters present in the establishme…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Special provisions for companies

Article R624-17

For the application of the second paragraph of article L. 622-20, the mandataire judiciaire shall give formal notice to the defaulting member or shareholder by registered letter with acknowledgement o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Capping of certain fees

Article A444-175

For the application of article R. 444-9, the notary shall calculate the sum of the fees set by sub-sections 1 and 2 of this section, relating respectively to the deed of transfer of immovable property…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Equalisation of tax resources

Article R4332-17

I. - For the application of Article L. 4332-9: 1° The population taken into account is the municipal population of the region, as it results from the legal population census authenticated by decree on…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Examinations, checks and registers.

Article R4534-17

Until the necessary examinations and repairs have been carried out, any equipment, machinery, installation or protective device found to be defective is withdrawn from service. Repaired equipment, mac…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Organisation of the intervention.

Article R4543-17

…ne or more pieces of equipment are running simultaneously in the same shaft, work on one of them is carried out when the others have been shut down, unless the separation between the equipment ensures…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Deeds relating principally to loans, debts and securities involved in economic activity

Article A444-146

Services relating to endorsement (numbers 142 to 144 in table 5) give rise to the collection of:1° With regard to the endorsement of enforceable copies to order mentioned in the Law no. 76-519 of 15 J…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Content of the agreement.

Article L2352-17

…arrangements, the agreement shall determine the content of these arrangements including, where applicable, the number of members of the administrative or supervisory body of the European Company which…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VI: Fractional or deferred payment of duties

Article 1722 bis

In the case provided for in articles 832 and 924-3 of the Civil Code, where the beneficiary of the gift or legacy has time to pay the balances or rewards owed to his co-heirs, the payment of the death…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Criminal penalties

Article 1771 A

…1671 who has neither declared nor paid to the public accountant the deductions he has made in application of the same article 1671, if the delay exceeds one month. In the event of a repeat offence wi…

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