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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title II: Rules relating to non-marine damage insurance

Article A125-3

In municipalities that do not have a plan for the prevention of foreseeable natural risks for the risk concerned, the interministerial order declaring a state of natural disaster as provided for in ar…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings

Article A225-1

In order to carry out the verification provided for in V of Article L. 225-102-1, the independent third-party body shall obtain a certificate of accreditation issued by the Comité français d'accrédita…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIc : Mobile electronic anti-seizure devices for the protection of victims of violence

Article 1136-16

Where the wearing of a mobile anti-collision device provided for in article 515-11-1 of the Civil Code is requested by either of the parties, any information relating to the family situation shall be…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Special provisions

Article 1639 A

I. - Subject to the provisions of Article 1639 A bis, local authorities and competent bodies shall notify the tax departments, before 15 April each year, of decisions relating either to the rates or t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reference perimeter

Article A761-10

The file for the reduction of a reference perimeter includes: 1° A plan showing the location of the reference perimeter including the communes remaining within whose territory the provisions of articl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Guarantee of the representation of funds and professional civil liability

Article A814-3

The regulations setting the conditions for the election of court-appointed administrators and court-appointed representatives elected as members of the board of directors of the guarantee fund institu…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Jumping sessions

Article A322-148

The minimum age required to practise sport parachuting is fifteen. With the exception of licence-holders of federations with parachuting delegations, parachutists must present, at the time of registra…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Supplementary occupational pension contracts

Article A143-3

For the contracts mentioned in article L. 143-1, when the guarantees are expressed in units of account, the insurer or the supplementary occupational pension fund, at the request of the subscriber, me…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article A230-7

When a non-resident foreigner applies for a hunting licence, the period of validity of the insurance certificate provided for in article L. 223-13 of the new Rural and Maritime Fishing Code may not ex…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Provisions relating to the preparation of preventive resolution plans

Article A311-5

For the application of Article L. 311-8, the resolution board of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may ask the persons for whom it draws up or updates a preventive resolution plan t…

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