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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Verification procedures with the Banque de France.

Article R131-7

The person consulting the file indicates the access code allocated to him. In the case of a proxy, the proxy must indicate his or her own access code and that of the payee of the cheque. The query inc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Injunction and regularisation

Article R131-21

If the rejected cheque has been paid when presented again, the drawer shall report this to the drawee.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Injunction and regularisation

Article R131-24

A joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Economy shall specify the information that must be included in the injunctions, notices and other documents provided for in this sub-se…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R131-47

…absence or inadequacy of the funds in reserve, and where the funds in reserve are insufficient to allow payment, the drawee must draw up a notice for the payee stating the precise reason for the refu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R131-50

The drawee must be able to prove, for a period of two years, the date on which it delivered or sent the cheque forms to the account holder.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: The National Council of Sworn Freight Brokers

Article A131-2

Sworn brokers of goods registered on the lists of courts of appeal in numbers of less than nine are grouped by court of appeal, for the elections to the National Council of sworn brokers of goods, und…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Design Litigation

Article L521-12

Corporate entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in Article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, of the offence defined in the first paragraph of Article L. 521-10 shall be liable, in ad…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal proceedings

Article L615-14-3

Corporate entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, of the offence defined in Article L. 615-14 shall, in addition to a fine in accordance wi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings

Article L623-32-2

Corporate entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in Article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, of the offence defined in Article L. 623-32 shall be liable, in addition to a fine in acc…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions

Article L4223-2

The use of the title of pharmacist, without fulfilling the conditions required by article L. 4221-1, or the use without right of a diploma, certificate or other title legally required for the practice…

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