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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Use.

Article L3262-4

In the event of the issuer's safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings, employees holding unused but still valid and exchangeable meal vouchers on the date of the declaratory judge…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Protection.

Article L4623-4

Any dismissal of an occupational physician envisaged by the employer is submitted for the opinion of either the social and economic committee, the inter-company social and economic committee or the in…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Powers

Article L5217-4

The metropolis is automatically substituted for the public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status whose transformation is mentioned in article L. 5217-1. The substitution…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Operation

Article R1212-4

The Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Charges is convened by the chairman of its plenary session, who sets the agenda and sends it to the interested members of the committee at least ten days be…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedure

Article R55-4

In the event of an adversarial decision handed down in the presence of the convicted person or his representative, the latter will be given, at the end of the hearing, if he so requests, a statement o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administration.

Article R512-42

A specific fund for general banking risks, known as the "Fonds central de solidarité du crédit maritime mutuel", is created in the books of the Société centrale de crédit maritime mutuel to guarantee…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administration.

Article R512-41

The total amount of funds corresponding to advances from the State held by a regional fund or union may not exceed ten times the total of its paid-up capital and, where applicable, the guarantee fund…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administration.

Article R512-40

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution referred to in Article L. 612-1 may, after obtaining the opinion of the central body of savings banks and banques populaires, grant collective auth…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Operations.

Article R513-4

Loans secured by a charge on immovable property conferring an equivalent guarantee within the meaning of 1 of I of article L. 513-3 are loans secured by a charge which gives the creditor, regardless o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Sponsorship.

Article L6523-4

The persons authorised to act as mentors are approved by the administrative authority, taking into account in particular their experience as mentors within the meaning of articles L. 6223-5, relating…

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