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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Payment of tax

Article 223 O

1. The parent company is substituted for the companies in the group for the purposes of setting off against the amount of corporation tax for which it is liable in respect of each financial year:a. Ta…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D4425-19

I.-In application of article L. 4425-3, the President of the Corsican Executive Council presents an annual report to the Assembly of Corsica on the situation with regard to equality between women and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Budgets and accounts

Article D5217-19

The audited accounts referred to in article L. 5217-10-15 are audited by a statutory auditor for bodies subject to the obligation to certify their accounts, and by the chairman of the body concerned f…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Implementation and administration.

Article D4622-19

In the absence of specific statutory provisions for the inter-company occupational health and safety service, where candidates for the positions of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Board o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Acquisition of French nationality by marriage

Article 21-5

A marriage declared null and void by a decision of a French court or a foreign court whose authority is recognised in France does not render null and void the declaration provided for in article 21-2…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 17: Nuclear medicine

Article D6124-192

The equipment on the site authorised under the conditions of Article R. 6123-136 is connected to a system for archiving and sharing images and to a system for archiving and analysing doses. The report…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Wanted persons file

Article 230-19

The following are entered in the wanted persons file in respect of judicial decisions: 1° Search warrants, orders and notes issued by the public prosecutor, investigating, trial or sentence enforcemen…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section 0I: Exceptional tax on high incomes.

Article 223 sexies

I. - 1 A contribution on the reference tax income of the tax household, as defined in 1° of IV of article 1417, without taking into account the capital gains referred to in I of article 150-0 B ter, r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Deeds and formalities relating to partition and sale by voluntary auction

Article A444-194

I. - Acts carried out in the context of a contested application for the partition of movable or immovable property, including in the case of a licitation by voluntary auction (number 37 of table 6), g…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Deeds and formalities relating to partition and sale by voluntary auction

Article A444-196

A fixed fee of €346.16 is charged for publication of the judgment in the Land Registry (number 40 in Table 6).The fee for publication of the judgment in the Land Registry (number 40 in Table 6) is €34…

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