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Article D1524-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The report referred to in the fourteenth paragraph of Article L. 1524-5 of this code includes the following information: 1° A presentation of the semi-public company recalling its history, its corporate purpose, its areas of activity, the address of its registered office, the number of its employees, the breakdown of its capital, the organisation of its governance, the names of the chairman, the managing director and the directors, identifying those…

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Article R1611-2 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For the application of article L. 1611-6, local authorities, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation, communal and inter-communal social action centres and school funds, referred to in this sub-section as “distributors”, may issue special payment vouchers known as “personalised support vouchers” to people experiencing social difficulties. In this sub-section, the following terms are used: -“beneficiaries”: persons who receive personalised support vouchers; -“issuers”: persons who make personalised support vouchers available to distributors…

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Article R1611-3 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The relationship between the distributor and the issuer of personalised support vouchers is governed by a contract. This contract specifies the terms and conditions for ordering personalised support vouchers, paying for, reimbursing or exchanging the vouchers, as well as how long they are to be kept. It also specifies the procedures for transmitting the information defined in article R. 1611-6, and the method for calculating any commission due to the…

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Article R1611-4 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The relationship between service providers who wish to accept personalised support cheques and the issuers is governed by a contract. This contract may stipulate maximum payment terms for service providers by the issuer, as well as the conditions under which the issuer may refuse to pay cheques wrongly accepted by the service provider.

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Article R1611-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Personalised support vouchers are presented by beneficiaries to service providers, who may only accept them in payment under the conditions laid down for their use by distributors, in particular with regard to the nature of the goods, products, or services that may be acquired. The service providers shall certify that they are used in accordance with these conditions, by affixing the statement provided for in III of article R. 1611-8.

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Article R1611-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Personalised support vouchers must be used by beneficiaries before 31 December of the year in which they are valid. Service providers present personalised support vouchers to the issuers for payment no later than 28 February following the year of their validity, failing which they will lapse definitively. Payment by the issuer is subject to the condition that the service provider has effectively certified that the use of the cheque has…

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Article R1611-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Undistributed personalised support vouchers that have expired under the conditions defined in the last paragraph of article R. 1611-11 are returned to the issuer by the distributor on whose behalf they were issued before 31 January following the year of their validity. They shall be exchanged or reimbursed for their face value by the issuer to the distributor, at the latter’s request, before 28 February following the year of their…

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Article R1611-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

To be accepted for payment by issuers, personalised support vouchers must bear, in clear print: I. – Affixed by the issuer, the following particulars: 1° Name and address of the issuer; 2° Name of the competent territorial authority or public establishment; 3° Number in a continuous series of numbers characterising the issue; 4° Face value of the voucher; 5° Calendar year of validity. II. – Stamped by the authorising officer…

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Article R1611-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The credit institutions, organisations or services mentioned in the fourth paragraph of article L. 1611-6 issue a certificate in duplicate to each issuer who opens a “personalised support voucher account”.The issuer shall submit one of these copies to the commission provided for in article R. 1611-12. The issuer shall pay into these accounts, to the exclusion of all others, the funds corresponding to the face value of the purchase of…

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