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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Financing of vocational training

Article L6523-2

…ion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the skills operators with cross-industry competence report to the skills operators with national and professional competence on the us…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Artistic agent activity

Article L7121-9

…No person may act as an artistic agent if he or she is, directly or through an intermediary, a producer of cinematographic or audiovisual works.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Declaration of activity as a live performance entrepreneur

Article L7122-7

The competent administrative authority may object to the continuation of the activity and terminate the validity of the declaration in the event of failure to comply with the employer's obligations un…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Protection of wages.

Article L7122-15

…ay, at the request of the administrative authority or the interested parties, be subject to seizure during the representation, authorised by an order of the judicial judge ruling in summary proceeding…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Financial guarantee.

Article L7123-20

The financial guarantee may only result from a guarantee undertaking given by a mutual guarantee company, a collective guarantee organisation, an insurance company, a bank or a financial institution a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Criminal provisions.

Article L7123-30

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide a financial guarantee resulting from a guarantee given in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-20 is liable to six months' imprisonm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Exemptions for the employment of children by approved persons.

Article L7124-4-1

When the child is engaged, in application of 5° of article L. 7124-1, the individual authorisation takes the form of an agreement.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Working hours and rest periods.

Article L7124-7

The employment and selection of an out-of-school child working as a model may only be authorised for two days a week, excluding Sundays.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Remuneration.

Article L7124-10

…atives and the allowance are set by the authorisation decision provided for in article L. 7124-5. Deductions from the allowance may be authorised under the conditions set out in the second paragraph o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 6: Criminal provisions.

Article L7124-22

…subject to compulsory schooling in a company referred to in article L. 7124-1, without prior individual authorisation, in breach of the provisions of the same article, is punishable by five years' im…

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