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French General Tax CodeIn force
III: Remuneration paid to managers and members of certain companies

Article 62

Salaries, lump-sum reimbursements of expenses and all other remuneration are subject to income tax in the name of their beneficiaries if they are allowed as a deduction from profits subject to corpora…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Procedure before the Court of Revision and Reconsideration

Article 624

The application for review or the application for reconsideration shall be submitted to the commission for the examination of applications for review and reconsideration, which shall rule on its admis…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding

Article L623-24-3

Where there is no contract between the plant variety certificate holder and the farmer concerned or between one or more plant variety certificate holders and a group of farmers concerned, or no inter-…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Accounting obligations applicable to all traders.

Article L123-23

Regularly kept accounting records may be admitted in court as evidence between traders of commercial transactions. If they have been irregularly kept, they may not be invoked by the author for his own…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Formation of the credit agreement

Article L312-23

If the borrower exercises his right of withdrawal, he is no longer bound by the service contract ancillary to the credit agreement.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Consultation of electors

Article L1112-23

A local authority or a public establishment for inter-communal cooperation may set up a youth council to issue an opinion on decisions relating to youth policy in particular. This body may formulate p…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: The Town Council

Article L2121-23

The deliberations are recorded in date order in a register kept under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. They are signed by the mayor and the secretary or secretaries of the meeting.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Group action

Article L623-23

Any agreement negotiated on behalf of the group is subject to approval by the judge, who checks that it complies with the interests of those to whom it is intended to apply and gives it enforceability…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Personal recovery procedure with compulsory liquidation

Article L742-23

If the debtor's situation so requires, the judge shall invite the debtor to apply for a social assistance or action measure, which may include a budget education programme, in particular a personalise…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Operation

Article L3121-23

The departmental council appoints its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies in the cases and under the conditions laid down by the provisions governing these bodies. The fixing by the aforemen…

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