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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVIII: Prosecution, investigation and trial of offences committed by legal persons

Article 706-43

…legal representative at the time of the prosecution. The latter represents the legal entity in all acts of the proceedings. However, where proceedings for the same or related acts are brought against…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Provisions specific to certain offences

Article 706-106

…ase, who shall give prior notice to the public prosecutor, without being criminally liable for such acts : 1° Acquire weapons or their components, ammunition or explosives; 2° With a view to acquiring…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article 706-143

…hat this agency may carry out, within the limits of the mandate given to it, all legal and material acts necessary for the conservation, maintenance and enhancement of this property. Any act resulting…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Miscellaneous provisions

Article A322-100

…application of the provisions of article R. 322-41, the holder of one of the following diplomas may act as a hyperbaric prevention advisor for dives in the 0 to 40 metre range:-State certificate in sp…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Offences relating to account rights and customer relations

Article L351-1

…ond, third and last paragraphs of II of article L. 312-1-1 and, where the customer is an individual acting for non-business purposes, article L. 314-12 and III of article L. 314-13, is punishable by a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Other conditions of access and practice

Article L519-3-4

Where the intermediary acts on behalf of a credit institution, a finance company, an electronic money institution that provides payment services, a payment institution, another intermediary in banking…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Partial access

Article L4002-5

When practising the activities to which partial access has been granted, the professional shall enjoy the same rights, be subject to the same obligations and incur the same civil, disciplinary and cri…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Economic interest groupings.

Article L251-11

…icles of Association, and for their mismanagement. If several directors have cooperated in the same acts, the court shall determine the contributory share of each in the reparation of the damage. Subj…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IX: Special schemes

Article 298 sexdecies B

…gold referred to in a of 2 of Article 298 sexdecies A to another taxable person.3. Taxable persons acting in the name and on behalf of another person in transactions referred to in a of 1 of article…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IX: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 1119

Until the reconstitution or restitution of the registers has been carried out, notarial acts which, at the termes de l'article 46 du code civil, peuvent suppléer tous les actes de l'état civil dont le…

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