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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Statement of liabilities

Article R723-2

The call to creditors provided for in Article L. 723-1, which the commission may have carried out in order to draw up the statement of liabilities, shall be published at the request of the commission…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: National Consumer Institute

Article R822-18

The Unfair Contract Terms Committee comprises thirteen members, allocated as follows:1° A magistrate from the judiciary, chairman;2° Two magistrates from the judiciary or administrative order or membe…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Administrative and litigation procedure

Article R312-6

The person whose appeal has been rejected by the deputy director of visas, the commission mentioned in article D. 312-3 or, when the latter has issued a recommendation pursuant to article D. 312-5-1,…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Advertising in international matters

Article 1303-2

Where a marriage contract has been made in France, the spouses or one of them shall send to the notary holding the record of the contract, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, a copy…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article R123-142

The order of the judge responsible for supervising the register of commerce and companies or the ruling of the court of appeal shall be referred to within fifteen days of the date on which the decisio…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration

Article R123-143

A decision to refuse registration or registration of amendments to the articles of association taken by the registrar pursuant to the second paragraph of article R. 123-95 may be contested within fift…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Automatic registrations

Article R123-130

When the registrar who carried out the main registration of a legal entity that may be subject to dissolution notes, after a period of two years following the entry in the register of the total cessat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article R223-11

Notification of the proposed transfer or pledge of company shares, provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 223-14 and Article L. 223-15, shall be made by extrajudicial document or by regist…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The automated national judicial database for perpetrators of sexual or violent offences

Article R53-8-14

For the application of 1° and 2° of Article 706-53-5, the proof referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 53-8-13 is delivered or sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII ter: Arrangements for placement under mobile electronic surveillance as a security measure

Article R61-9

The matter is referred to the commission by the sentence enforcement judge or by the public prosecutor. The sentenced person and his/her counsel and, where applicable, the public prosecutor are inform…

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