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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Financial organisation.

Article L6145-4

…ount, or in the event of a revision of the tariffs for the services mentioned in 1° of I of Article L. 162-22-10 or 1° of Article L. 162-23-4 of the Social Security Code, the Director General of the R…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Territorial Council

Article LO6251-6

The deliberation provided for in article LO 6251-5 is published in the Journal officiel de la République française (Official Journal of the French Republic), after being sent to the Prime Minister and…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Territorial Council

Article LO6351-6

The deliberation provided for in I of article LO 6351-5 is published in the Journal officiel de la République française (Official Journal of the French Republic), after being sent to the Prime Ministe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Powers of the Territorial Council

Article LO6461-6

The deliberation provided for in article LO 6461-5 is published in the Journal officiel de la République française, after being sent to the Prime Minister and the State representative. It comes into f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Liability in the event of an incorrectly executed payment transaction

Article L133-22

…ere the payment order is given by the payer, his payment service provider shall, subject to Article L. 133-5, the second and third paragraphs of Article L. 133-21 and Article L. 133-24, be liable to t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custody account and registration in a shared electronic recording system

Article L211-7

…depository may be registered in a securities account held by an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3, unless the issuer decides otherwise.Financial securities that are not admitted to the oper…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Access to payment account services held by credit institutions

Article L312-23

…rules to govern access by issuers of tokens that have obtained the approval referred to in Article L. 552-4, service providers registered in accordance with Article L. 54-10-3 and service providers t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: College of candidates

Article L1441-12

…e persons and if they are not themselves candidates, the collaborating spouses mentioned in article L. 121-4 of the Commercial Code for craftsmen, traders and self-employed professionals and in articl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Biomedicine

Article L1418-3

…3° Representatives of associations of users of the health system approved in application of article L. 1114-1 or other associations whose purpose falls within the Agency's remit;4° Representatives of…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Title V: Information organisation

Article L451-1

…ased in the territory of the French Republic and insured with an undertaking referred to in article L. 451-2.When these persons or their representatives so request, the body will provide them with the…

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