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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Supervision of the financial system, cooperation and exchanges of information on national territory.

Article L631-2-3

…ère;3° In the event of a hearing by a committee of enquiry under the conditions provided for in the last paragraph of II of Article 6 of Ordinance No. 58-1100 of 17 November 1958 on the functioning of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial and accounting provisions

Article L5217-10-14

…is attached to the administrative account only;3° An aggregated presentation of the results for the last known financial year of the metropolitan authority's main budget and annex budgets. This docume…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER VII: Metropolitan France

Article L5217-19

…ticle L. 5217-2 are transferred to the metropolis, in accordance with the procedures set out in the last three paragraphs of this same V.V. - The services or parts of services of the State that partic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D12

…When the investigations concern a fact that has given rise to the information provided for in the last paragraph of Article D. 3, the criminal investigation police officer who travels outside the te…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Provisions applicable in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Article R310

…Code";12° For its application in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in 10° of II, the reference to the last paragraph of Article L. 2223-42 of the General Local Authorities Code is replaced by the refere…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Criminal court

Article D45-16

…the absence of payment or a request submitted within the required timeframe, in accordance with the last paragraph of Article 495-18 and article D. 45-10 ; 3° Receive requests made pursuant to the fir…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L773-21

…rds "in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of I of Article L. 141-4" are replaced by the words "in the last two paragraphs of Article L. 721-24".

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Payment service providers, bureaux de change and electronic money issuers

Article L774-21

…rds "in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of I of Article L. 141-4" are replaced by the words "in the last two paragraphs of Article L. 721-24".

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Authorisation procedure

Article R1243-8

…article R. 1243-12; 6° The appointment of a new person responsible for activities as defined in the last paragraph of article R. 1243-12.7° The closure of the establishment or organisation and the sit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Participative financing intermediaries

Article R548-5

…ors, as well as the information it collects for this purpose;b) The default rates recorded over the last thirty-six months or, if less than three years, since the start of its activity, calculated and…

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