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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-54

…ix months from the date of notification of its refusal to notify the member, in one of the forms provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 4381-53, of the proposed transfer or repurchase of hi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-58

Subject to the rules governing the protection and representation of adults subject to a legal protection measure, the provisions of article R. 4381-57 apply to the transfer of the shares of a member w…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-53

…shareholders either by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or in one of the forms provided for in Article 1690 of the Civil Code. Within two months of the transferor notifying the compa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-57

A member who is definitively banned from practising his profession as a result of a final decision has a period of six months in which to sell his shares under the conditions set out in articles R. 43…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-55

Articles R. 4381-52 to R. 4381-54 also apply to the free transfer of all or part of a member's shares by one of the members.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-52

Company shares are freely transferable between members unless otherwise provided for in the Articles of Association. They may only be transferred to third parties with the consent of the company expre…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Sales and transfers of shares

Article R4381-59

The period provided for by the second paragraph of article 24 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies for the transfer of the shares of a deceased partner…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Acquisition of rights

Article R512-5

The claiming, on the occasion of a filing made in France, of a right of priority attached to a previous foreign filing entails the obligation to send to the Institut national de la propriété industrie…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures.

Article R57-5

…e, the magistrate to whom the file of proceedings is referred designates, as the case may be, the investigating judge or the juvenile judge, the liberty and custody judge, the public prosecutor, the p…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Banking services providers

Article D775-5

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same tabl…

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