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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Special provisions for certain categories of employees

Article R3232-9

The procedure set out in article R. 3232-8 applies to employees with intermittent employment contracts when they are employed by several successive employers in the same month.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Judicial partition.

Article 841

The court of the place where the succession was opened has exclusive jurisdiction to hear actions for partition and disputes that arise either when the indivision is maintained or during the partition…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Specific legacies.

Article 1020

If, before the will or since, the thing bequeathed has been mortgaged for a debt of the succession, or even for the debt of a third party, or if it is encumbered by a usufruct, the person who must pay…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Personal property

Article 759

For French and foreign securities of any kind admitted to trading on a regulated market, the capital serving as a basis for the liquidation and payment of transfer duties free of charge is determined…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions governing the entry into or exit from national territory of the elements or products of the human body referred to in Article R. 1245-1, for scientific purposes

Article R1245-19

The provisions of Section 4 of Chapter V of Title III of this Book are applicable to the entry into and exit from national territory from or to a Member State of the European Union or party to the Agr…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Special provisions

Article L222-16-2

Any sponsorship or patronage operation is prohibited where its purpose or effect is direct or indirect advertising in favour of: 1° Investment services relating to the financial contracts defined in A…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2

The following are subject to the obligations set out in sections 2 to 7 of this chapter: 1° Bodies, institutions and services governed by the provisions of Title I of this Book, including branches of…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2-1

For the purposes of this chapter, the notion of business relationship means the professional or commercial relationship with the customer and includes, where applicable, the beneficial owner. In the c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-4

Natural or legal persons who carry out, in direct connection with their main business, an ancillary financial activity which falls within one of the categories mentioned in 1° to 7°c of Article L. 561…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Persons subject to obligations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Article L561-2-2

For the purposes of this chapter, the beneficial owner is the natural person(s): 1° who ultimately controls, directly or indirectly, the customer ; 2° or for whom a transaction is executed or an activ…

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