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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Operation.

Article L4422-10

The President alone is responsible for policing the Assembly within its precincts. He may have any person who disturbs order expelled from the sittings room.The dates and agenda of sittings are decide…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Special provisions for securitisation undertakings or compartments of securitisation undertakings carrying insurance risks

Article L214-187

This paragraph applies to securitisation undertakings or compartments of securitisation undertakings which bear insurance risks by entering into one or more contracts transferring these risks with an…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Standards and control

Article L4022-11

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall set the conditions for the application of this section, in particular:1° The conditions and procedures for creating, using, accessing and consulting individual acc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Share categories

Article L6313-1

The actions contributing to the development of skills that fall within the scope of the provisions relating to vocational training are : 1° Training courses ; 2° Skills assessments ; 3° Actions to val…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 6: Information to be provided to the public

Article L385-7-1

I.-The provisions of I of article L. 533-22 of the Monetary and Financial Code are applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds, insofar as they invest in shares admitted to trading on a reg…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE III: Provisions common to the various commercial companies.

Article L239-1

The Articles of Association may provide that the shares of sociétés par actions or the corporate units of sociétés à responsabilité limitée subject to corporation tax by operation of law or by option…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Suspension of the realisation of assets in insolvency proceedings opened against a member of a corporate group

Article L694-1

For the purposes of implementing the stay of an asset realisation procedure referred to in b of paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of Article 60 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) 2015/848, the provisions…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Investment holding companies

Article L517-11-1

Within investment holding companies, the persons referred to in Article L. 532-2.4 and the members of the board of directors, the supervisory board, the management board or any other body exercising e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1248-1

Any person who, contrary to article L. 1242-1, concludes a fixed-term employment contract whose purpose or effect is to permanently fill a job linked to the normal and permanent activity of the compan…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Common provisions

Article L1447-1

Notwithstanding the second paragraph of article L. 1114-1, the representation of users of the healthcare system in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Mayotte in hospital or p…

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