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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Time limits and forms of appeal

Article 380-9

The appeal shall be lodged within ten days of the delivery of the judgment. However, the time limit shall run only from the service of the judgment, by whatever method, on the party who was not presen…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972 ter

For the application of article 965 and under the same conditions, shares in property investment companies mentioned in I of article 208 C when the taxpayer holds, directly and, where applicable, indir…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R1311-9

The needs of the State mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 1311-19 are those of justice, national defence, the national police, the national gendarmerie and civil security.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D71-114-10

…ority attaches the mandates and supporting documents for expenditure, indicated in articles D. 1617-19 and D. 1617-20, to the issue slips that he sends to the local authority's accounting officer, who…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Composition and organisation

Article D821-9

The chairman of the Council may, on his own initiative or on the initiative of the bureau, as defined in article D. 821-11, invite to its meetings any personality and appoint any expert whose presence…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Examination of an application for authorisation

Article R151-9

I.-The conditions set may be revised, at the investor's request: 1° In the event of changes, unforeseeable on the date of completion of the authorised operation, in the economic and regulatory conditi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional card

Article R4222-9

…reated in the internal market information system referred to in II of Article 1 of Order No 2016-1809 of 22 December 2016 on the recognition of professional qualifications of regulated professions, to…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Operation of the agency committee

Article R1432-115-4

…to that of the elected members of the Agency and Working Conditions Committee. Their term of office may be renewed. When a member of the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee ceases to hold…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Subscription of shares

Article L214-96

…emainder must be paid up in one or more instalments within five years of subscription.No new shares may be created with a view to increasing the share capital until the initial capital has been paid u…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-9

…or by the articles 712-6 or 712-7, the sentence enforcement judge or the sentence enforcement court may rule in his absence. The time limit for appeal then only runs from the notification of the judgm…

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