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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-406

Any establishment with multi-bedded rooms must have at least two single rooms per twenty beds or fraction thereof.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-407

Throughout the day, there should never be less than one care worker for every five beds.

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Interested in fraud.

Article 400

Anyone who buys or possesses smuggled or undeclared goods, even outside the radius, in quantities exceeding their family's consumption requirements, is liable to a 4th class fine.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Exemption from traffic formalities

Article 458

Sont affranchés des formalités à la circulation :1° (Repealed);2° (Repealed);3° and 4° (repealed)5° (Repealed);6° Under the conditions laid down by order of the Minister responsible for the budget mad…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 26: Fibres and textile products

Article R412-42

The enforcement measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 the provisions of Articles 2 to 5, 7 to 17, 19, 20 and 26 as well as Annexes I to IX to Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 of the European Parliamen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Consignments and deposits.

Article R518-40

Sums deposited voluntarily may only be seized in the cases, forms and under the conditions provided for in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Consignments and deposits.

Article R518-42

In the event of the loss of a receipt, the voluntary depositor must lodge an objection based on this cause; the said objection will be published in an extract in the Official Gazette, at the expense a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Consignments and deposits.

Article R518-41

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations or its agents will make repayments to the collector of the institution in whose name the voluntary deposit was made, in accordance with the mandates of the competent…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Bookkeeping and deposit of funds.

Article R814-40

When a court-appointed administrator or a judicial representative deposits funds with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations in a remunerated global account, he shall show once a quarter and at the en…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Bookkeeping and deposit of funds.

Article R814-41

Judicial administrators in the exercise of the mandates entrusted to them in civil matters are required to deposit in an account opened in their name at the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, as soon…

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