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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Visits and seizures

Article L512-53

The visit and seizures are carried out under the authority and control of the judge who authorised them. When they take place outside his jurisdiction, the judge who issued the order shall, in order t…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: The Standing Committee

Article L4133-6-1

The Regional Council shall determine, by a resolution adopted within three months of its renewal, the list of powers the exercise of which is, under its control, delegated to its standing committee. I…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: The examination referred to in article R. 811-28-5

Article A811-28

Two months before the date of the session, the committee will draw up a list of candidates admitted to take the knowledge test. Individual invitations mentioning the day, time and place of the test ar…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Transmission of documents

Article D6323-21-2

Articles R. 6332-30 to R. 6332-32 are applicable to the regional joint inter-professional committees. The documents provided for in articles R. 6332-30 and R. 6332-31 are also sent to the Regional Pre…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-5

…and the clarity of the contract, life insurance contracts and capitalisation contracts must include clauses defining the purpose of the contract and the respective obligations of the parties, in accor…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special transfer rules

Article D132-9

I. - This article applies to the contracts mentioned in 1° of article L. 143-1, whether or not they have been taken out under the authorisation provided for in the same article and in article L. 382-1…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Duties of dental surgeons in relation to social medicine.

Article R4127-247

…k that it complies with the provisions of this code of ethics and, if any exist, with the mandatory clauses of the standard contracts drawn up by the Conseil national de l'ordre either in agreement wi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Tax regimes

Article 69 C

Persons who carry out commercial import, sale, commission and brokerage operations involving live butchery and charcuterie animals, as well as those who carry out commercial purchase operations involv…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L241-2

…nts organised by an approved federation or authorised by a delegated federation or by a specialised commission set up in application of article L. 131-19, or with a view to taking part in them, substa…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L121-15

…d must be returned to the insured, after deduction of the costs incurred by the insurer, other than commissions, where the latter have been recovered from the agent or broker.In the case referred to i…

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