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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Technical provisions for life assurance, marriage and natality insurance and capitalisation operations

Article R343-3

The technical provisions corresponding to life insurance, marriage and natality insurance and capitalisation operations are as follows:1° Mathematical provision: difference between the present values…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Dotation d'équipement des territoires ruraux (rural amenities grant)

Article L2334-37

In each department, a commission is set up under the State representative, made up of:1° Representatives of the mayors of communes with a population not exceeding 20,000 in metropolitan departments an…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Investigations

Article R232-86-3

Reports drawn up in the course of investigations state the nature, date and place of the findings. They are signed by the investigator and the person concerned by the investigations. If the latter ref…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Transferred services.

Article R4422-31

Sont transférés à la collectivité de Corse, en application du deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 4422-43 :1° The departments or parts of departments responsible, within the regional directorate of equipm…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-15-3

I.-For the contracts referred to in article L. 113-12-2, the insurer must inform the policyholder each year, on paper or on any other durable medium, of the right of cancellation provided for in the s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-28

The decisions referred to in Article 103-1 of Decree no. 85-1388 of 27 December 1985 on the reorganisation and judicial liquidation of companies are forwarded by the Banque de France to each banker wh…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-26

The notice of non-payment for insufficient funds drawn up pursuant to article L. 131-84 must include all the information provided for in 1°, 2°, 4°, 5°, 6° and 8° of article R. 131-12, as well as the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-29

In the event of suspension of the effects of a cheque-writing ban pursuant to Article L. 643-12 of the French Commercial Code, the drawee shall send the Banque de France, no later than the second busi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Notification to the Banque de France of payment incidents and regularisations.

Article R131-27

The Banque de France cancels the declaration of a payment incident at the request of the drawee in the following cases: 1° When the refusal to pay or the issuing of the non-payment advice note is the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Health mediation and language interpreting

Article D1110-6

Linguistic interpreting in the health field refers to the interface function, based on oral translation techniques, provided between people who do not have a good or imperfect command of the French la…

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