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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Procedure for registration on the list of court-appointed administrators and revision of the list.

Article R811-29

On receipt of the complete file from a person mentioned in Article R. 811-27, a receipt is issued. The national commission shall reach a reasoned decision within four months of the issue of the receip…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Health rules applicable to bathing water

Article D1332-30

…s that it is impossible or unreasonably expensive to achieve "sufficient" quality status, he or she may, if appropriate, take a decision to close the bathing site before the five-year deadline. The pe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Declaration of significant events and malicious acts

Article R1333-21

…the declaration concerns a worker, the declaration made to the same authority under Article R. 4451-77 of the Labour Code is deemed to be a declaration under this Article.II - The person responsible f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Direct marketing of banking and financial services

Article R754-21

Article R. 341-16 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, as amended by Decree no. 2018-229 of 30 March 2018.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies

Article L4132-21

…of its standing committee, under the conditions set out in article L. 4133-5, the Regional Council may form its committees and appoint its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies and delegate s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Investment rules.

Article R214-32-29

I. - A general purpose investment fund may not invest more than : 1° 5% of its assets in eligible financial securities or money market instruments issued by the same issuer ; 2° 20% of its assets in e…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Determination of taxable profit

Article 216 ter

Corporate entities which subscribe before 1 July 1964 to the initial capital of the sociétés immobilières conventionnées referred to in Order no. 58-876 of 24 September 1958 or to their capital increa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions relating to water distribution

Article L2224-7-3

In the light of the territorial diagnosis drawn up in application of article L. 2224-7-2, the municipalities or their public cooperation establishments proceed to: 1° Identifying and assessing the pos…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Identification and lists of members of the profession of pharmacist.

Article D4221-30

…regional health agencies shall send the body managing the register referred to in Article D. 4113-118 a six-monthly update of the data relating to the places where pharmacy interns are assigned.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2-5

…of the latter, the officers mentioned in the article 20 and in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of the article 21 may, on the written requisition of the public prosecutor, proceed at the scene of a demonstration…

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