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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Non-voting preference shares.

Article R228-40

The special meeting of holders of non-voting preference shares, when convened to give its opinion on any decision of the ordinary or extraordinary general meetings, is convened at the same time as eac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article R40-40

The implementation of the judicial reconciliation software mentioned in articles 230-20 et seq is authorised, for each procedure that it controls, by the magistrate in charge of the investigation or i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Informing the person entered in the file

Article R50-40

In the case of registration in the file provided for in 5° of article 706-25-4, informing the person and handing over the document provided for in article R. 50-38 are made by the examining magistrate…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Information to the judicial authorities by the Banque de France.

Article R131-40

The Banque de France will provide any magistrate or judicial police officer acting on the instructions of the public prosecutor or on a court order with a statement of payment incidents recorded in th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Candidatures of employee trade union organisations

Article R2122-40

…iciaire shall give its decision without charge or formality within ten days from the date of referral. The parties are notified of the decision within three days by the court registry, which sends a c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Financial and accounting system

Article R1313-40

Revenue and imprest accounts may be set up in accordance with the provisions of Decree no. 2019-798 of 26 July 2019 on the revenue and imprest accounts of public bodies.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation of work

Article D1411-40

The plenary assembly of the National Health Conference brings together the members of the colleges defined in article D. 1411-37, to debate and deliberate on the draft opinions and reports submitted f…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Société de gestion du fonds interprofessionnel de l'accès au droit et à la justice (Management company for the inter-professional fund for access to law and justice)

Article R444-40

The articles of association and internal regulations of the fund management company are approved by a joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for the Budget. The internal regulations o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-section 4: Provisions common to the remuneration of the administrator, the administrator responsible for the implementation of the plan, the mandataire judiciaire and the liquidator.

Article R663-40

Actions by court-appointed administrators, plan executioners, judicial representatives and liquidators relating to remuneration shall be barred after six months from the notification provided for in A…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Drawing up electoral rolls.

Article R713-40

The provisions of Article R. 713-5 are applicable to the election of consular delegates.

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