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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Realisation of assets.

Article L642-20

Asset transfers carried out pursuant to Articles L. 642-18 and L. 642-19 are subject to the prohibitions set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 642-3. However, the juge-commissaire may, at the r…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Taxes specific to resorts

Article L2333-57

I. - (Repealed)II. - (Repealed)III. - (Repealed)IV. - Proceeds from gaming carried out in casinos governed by Article L. 321-3 of the Internal Security Code, except where they are registered in Wallis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Transfers

Article L3335-2

The sums held by an employee, in respect of the special reserve for employee profit-sharing, which he has not requested to be issued at the time of the termination of his employment contract, may be a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 8: Despecialisation.

Article L145-53

Refusal to convert is sufficiently justified if the lessor provides evidence that he intends to take over the premises at the end of the current three-year period, either in application of articles L.…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER II : Administration and municipal services

Article L2542-27

As an exception to the provisions of article L. 2223-17, on an exceptional basis, when a thirty-year, fifty-year, hundred-year or perpetual plot, granted before 11 November 1918 to persons who, on 22…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Formation of the contract

Article L224-6

The consumer is only bound by his signature. By way of derogation from the first paragraph and the first paragraph of Article L. 221-25, if the consumer who moves into a site solicits a supplier and w…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-145

For companies making, for the placement of their shares, an offer to the public other than one of those mentioned in 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Special provisions

Article L222-16-2

…here its purpose or effect is direct or indirect advertising in favour of: 1° Investment services relating to the financial contracts defined in Article L. 533-12-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code;…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Financing

Article L2315-80

When the social and economic committee decides to call in an expert, the costs of the expert are paid for : 1° By the employer for the consultations provided for in articles L. 2315-88, L. 2315-91, in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: PROVISIONS SPECIFIC TO NEW CALEDONIA

Article L732-1

I.-The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in New Caledonia, subject to th…

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