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Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of this Constitution, the National Assembly may make laws for the peace, order and good government of Belize. (Sec. 68)
Legislature
- EnglishElections of the National Assembly and community councils, as well as referenda shall be carried out on the basis of universal, equal, free, and direct suffrage, by secret vote. (Art. 7)
- ArmenianԱզգային ժողովի և համայնքների ավագանիների ընտրությունները, ինչպես նաև հանրաքվեներն անցկացվում են ընդհանուր, հավասար, ազատ և ուղղակի ընտրական իրավունքի հիման վրա՝ գաղտնի քվեարկությամբ: (Հոդված 7)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to this Constitution, the legislative power of the People is vested in the National Parliament.
… (Sec. 100)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power belongs to the Parliament. (Art. 45)
- Arabicيمارس البرلمان السلطة التشريعية. (المادّة 45)
- FrenchLe pouvoir législatif appartient au Parlement. (Art. 45)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to Clause (4), the Senate shall consist of elected and appointed members as follows:
(a) two members for each State shall be elected in accordance with the Seventh Schedule; and
(aa) two members for the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, one member for the Federal Territory of Labuan and one member for the Federal Territory of Putrajaya shall be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong; and
(b) forty members shall be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
(2) The members to be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall be persons who in his opinion have rendered distinguished public service or have achieved distinction in the professions, commerce, industry, agriculture, cultural activities or social service or are representative of racial minorities or are capable of representing the interests of aborigines.
… (Art. 45) - Malay(1) Tertakluk kepada Fasal (4), Dewan Negara hendaklah terdiri daripada ahli-ahli dipilih dan dilantik seperti yang berikut:
(a) dua orang ahli bagi setiap Negeri hendaklah dipilih mengikut Jadual Ketujuh; dan
(aa) dua orang ahli bagi Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, seorang ahli bagi Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan dan seorang ahli bagi Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya hendaklah dilantik oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong; dan
(b) empat puluh orang ahli hendaklah dilantik oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
(2) Ahli-ahli yang akan dilantik oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong hendaklah orang yang pada pendapatnya telah memberikan perkhidmatan awam yang cemerlang atau telah mencapai keunggulan dalam profesion, perdagangan, perindustrian, pertanian, aktiviti kebudayaan atau perkhidmatan sosial atau yang mewakili ras minoriti atau berkebolehan mewakili kepentingan orang asli.
… (Perkara 45)
Legislature
- English
Parliament shall consist of the Chamber of deputies and the Senate of the Republic.
… (Art. 55) - Italian
Il Parlamento si compone della Camera dei deputati e del Senato della Repubblica.
… (Art. 55)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is composed of members elected in direct voting by electoral districts. The respective constitutional organic law will determine the number of deputies, the electoral districts and the form of their election.
… (Art. 47) - SpanishLa Cámara de Diputados está integrada por miembros elegidos en votación directa por distritos electorales. La ley orgánica constitucional respectiva determinará el número de diputados, los distritos electorales y la forma de su elección.
… (Art. 47)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Council shall consist of twenty-five members comprising:
(a) One member elected by the voters in each of the twenty Dzongkhags; and
(b) Five eminent persons nominated by the Druk Gyalpo.
…
3. A candidate to or a member of the National Council shall not belong to any political party.
… (Art. 11) - Dzongkha
༡) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ནང་ འཐུས་མི་ཉེར་ལྔ་ཡོད་མིའི་གྲངས་ཚུ་ཚུད་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ རྫོང་ཁག་ཉི་ཤུ་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་གྱི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་དང་།
ཁ༽ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་གདམ་ཁ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཁྱད་ལྡན་གྱི་མི་ངོ་ལྔ།
…
༣) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་དོན་ལུ་འདེམས་ངོ་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་ནི་ མེད།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༡༽
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to this Constitution, Parliament may make laws, not inconsistent with this Constitution,
… (Sec. 84)
Legislature
- English(1) The composition of the National Assembly shall be as follows:
(a) ninety-six (96) members to be elected by the registered voters by direct and secret ballot. Every Namibian citizen who has the qualificaions described in Article 17 hereof shall be entitled to vote in the elections for members of the National Assembly and, subject to Article 47 hereof shall be eligible for candidature as a member of the National Assembly;
(b) not more than eight (8) persons appointed by the President under Article 32(5)(c) hereof by virtue of their special expertise, status, skill or experience: provided that such members shall have no vote in the National Assembly, and shall not be taken into account for the purpose of determining any specific majorities that are required under this Constitution or any other law.
(2) Subject to the principles referred to in Article 49 hereof, the members of the National Assembly referred to in Sub-Article (1)(a) hereof shall be elected in accordance with procedures to be determined by Act of Parliament. (Art. 46)