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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe international commitments, specified in Articles 113 to 115 below must be deferred, before their ratification, to the Constitutional Court, either by the President of the Republic or by the Prime Minister, or by the President of the National Assembly, or by one-tenth (1/10) of the Deputies, or by the President of the Senate or by one-tenth (1/10) of the Senators.
… (Art. 87) - FrenchLes engagements internationaux prévus aux articles 113 à 115 ci-après doivent être déférés, avant leur ratification, à la Cour Constitutionnelle, soit par le Président de la République, soit par le Premier Ministre, soit par le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale ou un dixième (1/10e) des députés, soit par le Président du Sénat ou un dixième (1/10e) des sénateurs.
... (Art. 87)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) Where any question as to the interpretation of this Constitution arises in any court of law established for Grenada (other than the Court of Appeal, the High Court or a court martial) and the court is of opinion that the question involves a substantial question of law, the court shall refer the question to the High Court.
… (Sec. 102)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe functions and the duties of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Union are as follows:
(a) interpreting the provisions under the Constitution;
(b) vetting whether the laws promulgated by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the Region Hluttaw, the State Hluttaw or the Self-Administered Division Leading Body and the Self-Administered Zone Leading Body are in conformity with the Constitution or not;
(c) vetting whether the measures of the executive authorities of the Union, the Regions, the States, and the Self-Administered Areas are in conformity with the Constitution or not;
(d) deciding Constitutional disputes between the Union and a Region, between the Union and a State, between a Region and a State, among the Regions, among the States, between a Region or a State and a Self-Administered Area and among the Self-Administered Areas;
(e) deciding disputes arising out of the rights and duties of the Union and a Region, a State or a Self-Administered Area in implementing the Union Law by a Region, State or Self-Administered Area;
(f) vetting and deciding matters intimated by the President relating to the Union Territory;
(g) functions and duties conferred by laws enacted by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. (Sec. 322) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ ခုံရုံး၏ လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်များမှာ အောက်ပါအတိုင်း ဖြစ်သည်
(က) ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များကို အနက်အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုခြင်း၊
(ခ) ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်၊ ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော် သို့မဟုတ် ကိုယ်ပိုင် အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းဦးစီးအဖွဲ့နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသဦးစီးအဖွဲ့တို့က ပြဌာန်းသည့်ဥပဒေများသည် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့် ညီညွှတ်ခြင်း ရှိ- မရှိစိစစ်ခြင်း၊
(ဂ) ပြည်ထောင်စု၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများ၊ ပြည်နယ်များနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင်စုများ၏ အုပ်ချုပ်မှုဆိုင်ရာအာဏာပိုင်းများ၏ ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များသည် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့် ညီညွှတ်ခြင်း ရှိ - မရှိ စိစစ်ခြင်း၊
(ဃ) ပြည်ထောင်စုနှင့် တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအကြား၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုနှင့် ပြည်နယ်အကြား၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်အကြား၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအချင်းချင်း၊ ပြည်နယ်အချင်းချင်း၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင်စုအကြား၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရစီရင်စုအချင်းချင်း ဖြစ်ပေါ် သည့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ အငြင်းပွားမှုများကို ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်း၊
(င) တိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ပြည်နယ် သို့မဟုတ် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရစီရင်စုတို့က ပြည်ထောင်စုဥပဒေကို အကောင်အထည် ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုနှင့်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ပြည်နယ်သို့မဟုတ်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရစီရင်စုတို့၏ အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် တာဝန်များနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ ပေါ်ပေါက်သည့် အငြင်းပွားမှုများကို ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်း၊
(စ) ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေများနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတက အကြောင်းကြားလာသည့် ကိစ္စရပ် များကို စိစစ်ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်း၊
(ဆ) ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်က ပြဌာန်းသည့်ဥပဒေများက ပေးအပ်သည့် လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်များ။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၂၂)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Court of Constitutionality is a permanent tribunal of privative jurisdiction, of which the essential function is the defense of the constitutional order; [it] acts as a collegiate tribunal with independence from the other organs of the State and exercises [the] specific functions assigned to it by the Constitution and the law of the matter.
… (Art. 268) - SpanishLa Corte de Constitucionalidad es un tribunal permanente de jurisdicción privativa, cuya función esencial es la defensa del orden constitucional; actúa como tribunal colegiado con independencia de los demás organismos del Estado y ejerce funciones específicas que le asigna la Constitución y la ley de la materia.
… (Art. 268)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
(1) Any citizen of Nepal may file a petition in the Supreme Court to have any law or any part thereof declared void on the ground of inconsistency with this Constitution because it imposes unreasonable restriction on the enjoyment of any fundamental right conferred by this Constitution or on any other ground; or to have any law or any part thereof made by a Provincial Assembly declared void because it is inconsistent with any law made by the Federal Parliament; or to have any law or any part thereof made by a Municipal Assembly or Rural Municipal Assembly declared void because it is inconsistent with a law made by the Federal Parliament or the Provincial Assembly; the Supreme Court shall have an extra-ordinary power to declare such law to be void either ab initio or from the date of its decision in case the law in question appears to be so inconsistent.
(2) The Supreme Court shall, for the enforcement of the fundamental rights conferred by this Constitution or of any other legal right for which no other remedy has been provided for or for which the remedy even though provided appears to be inadequate or ineffective or for the settlement of any constitutional or legal question involved in any dispute of public interest or concern; have the extraordinary power to issue necessary and appropriate orders, provide appropriate remedies, enforce such right or settle such dispute.
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(4) Subject to this Constitution, the Supreme Court shall, as provided for in the federal law, have the power to originally try and settle cases, hear appeals, test judgments referred for confirmation, revise cases, hear petitions or review its judgments or final orders. While so reviewing the judgements, Justices other than those having handed down the previous judgment shall make such review.
(5) The Supreme Court shall have the power to settle appeals from cases originally heard and settled by a High Court and matters of public importance involving questions of interpretation of the Constitution and law or cases recommended by a High Court, accompanied by its opinion that it is reasonable that decision be made by the Supreme Court.
(6) Other powers and procedures of the Supreme Court shall be as provided for in the federal law. (Art. 133) - Nepali
(१) यस संविधानद्वारा प्रदत्त मौलिक हक उपर अनुचित बन्देज लगाइएकोे वा अन्य कुनै कारणले कुनै कानून यो संविधानसँग बाझिएको हुँदा त्यस्तो कानून वा त्यसको कुनै भाग वा प्रदेश सभाले बनाएको कुनै कानून संघीय संसदले बनाएको कुनै कानूनसँग बाझिएको वा नगर सभा वा गाउँ सभाले बनाएको कुनै कानून संघीय संसद वा प्रदेश सभाले बनाएको कुनै कानूनसँग बाझिएको हँुदा त्यस्तो कानून वा त्यसको कुनै भाग बदर घोषित गरी पाऊँ भनी कुनै पनि नेपाली नागरिकले सर्वोच्च अदालतमा निवेदन दिन सक्नेछ र सो अनुसार कुनै कानून बाझिएको देखिएमा सो कानूनलाई प्रारम्भदेखि नै वा निर्णय भएको मितिदेखि अमान्य र बदर घोषित गर्ने असाधारण अधिकार सर्वोच्च अदालतलाई हुनेछ ।
(२) यस संविधानद्वारा प्रदत्त मौलिक हकको प्रचलनका लागि वा अर्को उपचारको व्यवस्था नभएको वा अर्को उपचारको व्यवस्था भए पनि
त्यस्तो उपचार अपर्याप्त वा प्रभावहीन देखिएको अन्य कुनै कानूनी हकको प्रचलनका लागि वा सार्वजनिक हक वा सरोकारको कुनै विवादमा समावेश भएको कुनै संवैधानिक वा कानूनी प्रश्नको निरूपणका लागि आवश्यक र उपयुक्त आदेश जारी गर्ने, उचित उपचार प्रदान गर्ने, त्यस्तो हकको प्रचलन गराउने वा विवाद टुंगो लगाउने असाधारण अधिकार सर्वोच्च अदालतलाई हुनेछ ।
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(४) यस संविधानको अधीनमा रही सर्वोच्च अदालतलाई संघीय कानूनमा व्यवस्था भए बमोजिम मुद्दाको शुरु कारबाही र किनारा गर्ने, पुनरावेदन सुन्ने, साधक जाँच्ने, मुद्दा दोहो¥याउने, निवेदन सुन्ने वा आफ्नो फैसला वा अन्तिम आदेशको पुनरावलोकन गर्ने अधिकार हुनेछ । त्यसरी पुनरावलोकन गर्दा पहिला फैसला गर्ने न्यायाधीश बाहेक अन्य न्यायाधीशले गर्ने छन् ।
(५) उच्च अदालतले शुरू कारबाही र किनारा गरेको मुद्दाको पुनरावेदन सुन्ने र संविधान र कानूनको व्याख्या सम्बन्धी प्रश्न समावेश भएको सार्वजनिक महत्वको विषय वा सर्वोच्च अदालतबाट निर्णय हुनु उपयुक्त छ भनी उच्च अदालतले आफ्नो राय सहित सिफारिस गरेको मुद्दाको निरूपण गर्ने अधिकार सर्वोच्च अदालतलाई हुनेछ ।
(६) सर्वोच्च अदालतको अन्य अधिकार र कार्यविधि संघीय कानून बमोजिम हुनेछ । (धारा १३३)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) If, on an application for naturalisation as a British citizen made by a person of full age and capacity, the Secretary of State is satisfied that the applicant fulfils the requirements of Schedule 1 for naturalisation as such a citizen under this subsection, he may, if he thinks fit, grant to him a certificate of naturalisation as such a citizen.
(2) If, on an application for naturalisation as a British citizen made by a person of full age and capacity who on the date of the application is married to a British citizen, or is the civil partner of a British citizen the Secretary of State is satisfied that the applicant fulfils the requirements of Schedule 1 for naturalisation as such a citizen under this subsection, he may, if he thinks fit, grant to him a certificate of naturalisation as such a citizen. (British Nationality Act 1981, Sec. 6)4
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishIn addition to the issues that are directed to it by other Articles of the Constitution, the High Constitutional Court, within the conditions established by an organic law:
1°. decides on the conformity with the Constitution of the treaties, of the laws, of the ordinances, and of the autonomous regulations;
2°. rules on the conflicts of competence between two or more Institutions of the State or between the State and one or more Decentralized Territorial Collectivities or between two or more Decentralized Territorial Collectivities;
3°. decides on the conformity with the Constitution and with the organic laws, of the deliberations and of the regulatory acts adopted by the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities;
4°. decides on the disputes of the operations of referendum, of the election of the President of the Republic and of the elections of the Deputies and Senators;
5°. proclaims the official result of the presidential and legislative elections and of the consultations by referendum. (Art. 116) - FrenchOutre les questions qui lui sont renvoyées par d’autres articles de la Constitution, la Haute Cour Constitutionnelle, dans les conditions fixées par une loi organique :
1° statue sur la conformité à la Constitution des traités, des lois, des ordonnances, et des règlements autonomes ;
2° règle les conflits de compétence entre deux ou plusieurs Institutions de l'Etat ou entre l'Etat et une ou plusieurs Collectivités Territoriales Décentralisées ou entre deux ou Collectivités Territoriales Décentralisées ;
3° statue sur la conformité à la Constitution et aux lois organiques, des actes à caractère législatif et réglementaires adoptés par les Collectivités Territoriales Décentralisées;
4° statue sur le contentieux des opérations de référendum, de l'élection du Président de la République et des élections des députés et sénateurs ;
5° proclame le résultat officiel des élections présidentielles, législatives et des consultations par référendum. (Art. 116)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
[The following] are attributions of the Supreme Court of Justice:
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3) To take cognizance of and to resolve the recourses of amparo for violation of rights established in the Constitution, in accordance with the Law of Constitutional Justice.
4) To take cognizance of and to resolve the recourses for unconstitutionality of the law.
... (Art. 164) - Spanish
Son atribuciones de la Corte Suprema de Justicia:
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3) Conocer y resolver los recursos de amparo por violación de los derechos establecidos en la Constitución, de acuerdo a la Ley de Justicia Constitucional.
4) Conocer y resolver los recursos por inconstitucionalidad de la ley.
... (Art. 164)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Supreme Constitutional Court shall not consider the constitutionality of the laws put by the President of the Republic to a referendum and obtained the approval of the people. (Art. 148)
- Arabicلا يحق للمحكمة الدستورية العليا أن تنظر في دستورية القوانين التي يطرحها رئيس الجمهورية على الاستفتاء الشعبي وتنال موافقة الشعب. (المادّة 148)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe appellate division of the Supreme Court may review cases heard in the national courts, and cases heard in state or local courts if they require interpretation of this Constitution, national law, or a treaty. If a state constitution permits, the appellate division of the Supreme Court may review other cases on appeal from the highest state court in which a decision may be had. (Art. XI, Sec. 7)