Chapter III: Models and modelling agencies

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide a financial guarantee resulting from a guarantee given in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-20 is liable to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Where the financial guarantee provided for in article L. 7123-19 is insufficient, failure by any user to take the place of the modelling agency for the payment of sums still due to employees and social security bodies, in disregard of the provisions of article L. 7123-21, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide the user, at his or her request, with a certificate from the social security bodies, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-22, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.