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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Retailers' cooperative societies.

Article L124-5

…y this chapter may form unions between themselves with the same objects as those defined in Article L. 124-1. These unions must comply with the same rules for their formation and operation as the said…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-5

Any person carrying out the activities mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 422-1 to 26 November 1990 may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 422-4, represent the persons mentioned…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Automatic transfer

Article L324-5

When an undertaking is subject to an ex officio portfolio transfer procedure, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may, if it considers that the natural or legal persons, other than th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Parental childcare leave and part-time work.

Article L1225-55

…rental education leave or the period of part-time work, or within one month of the reasoned request to resume the initial activity mentioned in Article L. 1225-52, the employee returns to his previous…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Regional health project

Article L1434-5

The illegality due to a formal or procedural defect in the regional health plan and its components as provided for in article L. 1434-2 may not be invoked by way of exception after the expiry of a per…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Referee.

Article L2524-5

…their filing with the competent administrative authority under the conditions determined in article L. 2231-6.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement of proceedings.

Article L621-5

No relative or ally, up to and including the fourth degree, of the debtor who is a natural person or of the directors, in the case of a legal person, may be appointed to one of the functions provided…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Commencement of proceedings

Article L628-5

The Public Prosecutor shall refer the matter to the court for the purpose of terminating the accelerated safeguard procedure if it is established that the debtor had been in cessation of payments for…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article L311-5

…e determined by a commission chaired by a representative of the State and composed, in addition, as to half, of persons appointed by the organisations representing the beneficiaries of the right to re…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section IV: Surrender by life insurance companies of annuities below a certain minimum amount.

Article L160-5

Notwithstanding any contractual provisions to the contrary, life insurance companies may, under the conditions and in accordance with a scale laid down by order of the Minister for the Economy and Fin…

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