Part four: Health professions

A member who has been suspended or temporarily banned from practising may be forced to withdraw from the company by a decision taken by the enhanced majority provided for in the Articles of Association, calculated by excluding members who have been sanctioned for the same or related acts. If exclusion is not ordered, the person concerned retains his status as a partner, but his share in the profits resulting from…

The early dissolution of the company may only be decided by three quarters of the shareholders.

In the event that all the members are definitively disqualified from practising or prohibited from practising the profession, the company is dissolved ipso jure. These decisions are brought to the attention of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency at the request of the Public Prosecutor.

The company is also automatically dissolved by the simultaneous death of all the partners or by the death of the last partner.

The company is also automatically dissolved by a request for withdrawal made either simultaneously by all the shareholders or by the last of them.

If only one member remains, he may, within the period provided for in the second paragraph of article 26 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to non-trading professional companies, transfer part of his shares to a third party who is a nurse or masseur-physiotherapist registered on the prefectoral lists. Failing this, the company may be dissolved under the conditions set out in the said article.

Any court decision declaring a company null and void or ordering it to be dissolved shall be brought to the attention of the Director General of the Regional Health Agency by the secretary-registrar of the court to which the matter is referred.