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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Financial assistance for employees, company directors or managers.

Article L7233-5

The provisions of article L. 7233-4 also apply to the head of the company or, if the company is a legal entity, to its chairman, its managing director, its deputy managing director(s), its managers or…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-5

Creditors registered on a business may also, even under private deeds, have the sale of the business ordered, eight days after a summons to pay made to the debtor and the third party holder, if any, h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Natural mineral waters.

Article L1322-5

The works, activities, deposits or installations mentioned in article L. 1322-4 and undertaken, either by virtue of a regular authorisation, or after a prior declaration, may, at the request of the ow…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Procedural provisions and respect for the rights of policyholders and creditors

Article L311-50

A transfer of ownership of equity securities mentioned in Chapter II of Title I of Book II of the Monetary and Financial Code or of other ownership securities, as well as of the assets, rights or obli…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Privileges.

Article L327-5

…of creditors whose rights derive from insurance contracts performed in that country, the preferential right instituted in the first paragraph of article L. 327-2 may not have the effect of placing the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other conditions of access and practice

Article L548-5

I. - Participative finance intermediaries must be able to provide evidence at all times of an insurance policy covering them against the financial consequences of their professional civil liability in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for public services.

Article L2512-5

In the case of the staff mentioned in article L. 2512-1 who are not subject to the provisions of article 1 of law no. 82-889 of 19 October 1982, the absence of service as a result of a concerted cessa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Directors

Article L511-51

I. - Within credit institutions or finance companies, the following persons must at all times be of sufficiently good repute and have the knowledge, skills and experience required to perform their dut…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Recourse in the event of non-payment

Article L131-55

When the presentation of the cheque or the preparation of the protest within the prescribed time limits is prevented by an insurmountable obstacle such as legal prescription or other case of force maj…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L220-5

Any person subject to compulsory insurance who has been unable to obtain a policy for the risks referred to in article L. 220-1 from at least three of the undertakings authorised in the class correspo…

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