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Showing 5160 of 64513 articles for Art. L. 133-4 et R. 133-3

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Terms and conditions for redeeming electronic money

Article L133-32

…ment shall be proportionate and related to the costs actually incurred by the electronic money issuer.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 13: Access to payment accounts

Article L133-39

…the request of one of the payment service providers issuing that instrument, immediately confirm whether the amount required to execute the card-linked payment transaction is available on the payer's…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tourist municipalities.

Article R133-36

…al or all of its member municipalities, with the exception of municipalities which exercise the competence of tourism promotion, including the creation of tourist offices, in application of the provis…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tourist municipalities.

Article R133-32

…manent population whose ratio to the municipal population of the municipality as defined in article R. 2151-1 of the General Local Authorities Code is greater than or equal to a percentage set in arti…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1331

Novation takes place only if both the old obligation and the new obligation are valid, unless its declared object is to substitute a valid undertaking for an undertaking which is vitiated by a defect.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1335

Novation agreed between the creditor and one of the joint and several debtors discharges the others. A novation agreed between the creditor and a guarantor does not release the principal debtor. It re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1330

Novation cannot be presumed; the intention to effect it must be clear from the instrument.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1332

Novation by change of debtor may be effected without the involvement of the first debtor.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1333

…consent. The latter may, in advance, agree to the new creditor being designated by the first creditor.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Conditions specific to the modality: "external radiotherapy, brachytherapy".

Article D6124-133-4

…rangements with the professionals concerned for : 1° The final validation of the delineation of target volumes and organs at risk, which is the responsibility of a radiotherapist with the qualificatio…

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