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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe following persons and organizations shall have the right to submit matters to obtain the interpretation, resolution and opinion of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Union in accord with the prescribed procedures :
(a) the Chief Minister of the Region or State;
(b) the Speaker of the Region or State Hluttaw;
(c) the Chairperson of the Self-Administered Division Leading Body or the Self-Administered Zone Leading Body;
(d) Representatives numbering at least ten percent of all the representatives of the Pyithu Hluttaw or the Amyotha Hluttaw. (Sec. 326) - Burmeseအောက်ပါပုဂ္ဂိုလ် သို့မဟုတ် အဖွဲ့အစည်းများသည် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ ဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံး၏ အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုချက်၊ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်၊ သဘောထားရယူရန်ကိစ္စများကို သတ်မှတ်ထားသော နည်းလမ်း များနှင့်အညီ နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံ ဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံးသို့ တင်သွင်းခွင့်ရှိသည်
(က) တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်၊
(ခ) တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဌ၊
(ဂ) ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်းဦးစီးအဖွဲ့ သို့မဟုတ် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ ဦးစီးအဖွဲ့ဥက္ကဌ၊
(ဃ) ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် သို့မဟုတ် အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အားလုံး၏ အနည်းဆုံး ၁၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်း အရေတွက်ရှိသော ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၂၆)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe authority of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine comprises:
1) deciding on conformity to the Constitution of Ukraine (constitutionality) of:
laws and other legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;
acts of the President of Ukraine;
acts of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
legal acts of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
2) official interpretation of the Constitution of Ukraine;
3) exercising other powers provided by the Constitution of Ukraine.
Matters under sub-paragraphs 1, 2 of paragraph one of this Article are considered upon the constitutional petitions of: the President of Ukraine; not less than fortyfive People's Deputies of Ukraine; the Supreme Court; Authorised Human Rights Representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. (Art. 150) - UkrainianДо повноважень Конституційного Суду України належить:
1) вирішення питань про відповідність Конституції України (конституційність):
законів та інших правових актів Верховної Ради України;
актів Президента України;
актів Кабінету Міністрів України;
правових актів Верховної Ради Автономної Республіки Крим.
2) офіційне тлумачення Конституції України.
3) здійснення інших повноважень, передбачених Конституцією України.
Питання, передбачені пунктами 1, 2 частини першої цієї статті, розглядаються за конституційними поданнями: Президента України; щонайменше сорока п’яти народних депутатів України; Верховного Суду; Уповноваженого Верховної Ради України з прав людини; Верховної Ради Автономної Республіки Крим. (Стаття 150)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) The High Court of South Africa may decide-
(a) any constitutional matter except a matter that-
(i) the Constitutional Court has agreed to hear directly in terms of section 167(6)(a); or
(ii) is assigned by an Act of Parliament to another court of a status similar to the High Court of South Africa; and
(b) any other matter not assigned to another court by an Act of Parliament.
… (Sec. 169)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress exercises the following functions and powers:
(1) to interpret the Constitution and supervise its enforcement;
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(7) To annul those administrative rules and regulations, decisions or orders of the State Council that contravene the Constitution or the statutes;
(8) To annul those local regulations or decisions of the organs of state power of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government that contravene the Constitution, the statutes or the administrative rules and regulations;
… (Art. 67) - Chinese全国人民代表大会常务委员会行使下列职权:
(一)解释宪法,监督宪法的实施;
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(七)撤销国务院制定的同宪法、法律相抵触的行政法规、决定和命令;
(八)撤销省、自治区、直辖市国家权力机关制定的同宪法、法律和行政法规相抵触的地方性法规和决议;
… (第六十七条)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe mandate of the Supreme Constitutional Court is as follows:
1. Control over the constitutionality of the laws, legislative decrees, bylaws and regulations;
2. Expressing opinion, upon the request of the President of the Republic, on the constitutionality of the draft laws and legislative decrees and the legality of draft decrees;
3. Supervising the election of the President of the Republic and organizing the relevant procedures;
4. Considering the challenges made to the soundness of the measures of electing the President of the Republic and members of the People’s Assembly and ruling on these challenges;
5. Trying the President of the Republic in the case of high treason;
6. The law states its other authorities. (Art. 146) - Arabicتختص المحكمة الدستورية العليا بما يأتي:
1. الرقابة على دستورية القوانين والمراسيم التشريعية واللوائح والأنظمة.
2. إبداء الرأي بناء على طلب من رئيس الجمهورية في دستورية مشروعات القوانين والمراسيم التشريعية وقانونية مشروعات المراسيم.
3. الإشراف على انتخاب رئيس الجمهورية وتنظيم الإجراءات الخاصة بذلك.
4. النظر في الطّعون الخاصّة بصحة انتخاب رئيس الجمهورية وأعضاء مجلس الشعب والبت فيها.
5. محاكمة رئيس الجمهورية في حالة الخيانة العظمى.
6. يبين القانون اختصاصاتها الأخرى. (المادة 146)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) The Supreme Court shall be a superior court of record, shall consist of a Chief Justice and such number of other judges as may from time to time be prescribed by Act, and shall have appellate jurisdiction, as to both law and fact, with final authority to adjudicate all cases and controversies properly brought before it, in accord with this Constitution and other applicable laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
(2) An appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court:
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(b) as of right from any final decision of the High Court in the exercise of any appellate jurisdiction, but only if the High Court certifies that the case involves a substantial question of law as to the interpretation or effect of any provision of the Constitution;
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(3) The High Court may, on its own motion or on application of any party to the proceedings, remove to the Supreme Court any question arising as to the interpretation or effect of the Constitution in any proceedings of the High Court, other than proceedings set down for trial before a bench of 3 judges.
… (Art. VI, Sec. 2)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Mejlis shall:
1. Adopt the Constitution, enact laws, make amendments and changes to the Constitution and laws, monitor their performance and their interpretation;
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9. Determine conformity to or divergence from the Constitution and the normative legal acts by the state authorities and administration;
... (Art. 81) - RussianМеджлис:
1) принимает Конституцию и законы, вносит в них изменения и дополнения, осуществляет контроль над их исполнением и их толкование;
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9) учреждает государственные награды, награждает Президента Туркменистана государственными наградами, присваивает ему воинские звания и иные государственные звания;
... (Статья 81) - TurkmenMejlis:
1) Konstitusiýany we kanunlary kabul edýär, olara üýtgetmeler we goşmaçalar girizýär, olaryň ýerine ýetirilişine gözegçiligi we olara resmi düşündiriş bermegi amala aşyrýar;
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9) döwlet sylaglaryny döredýär, Türkmenistanyň Prezidentini döwlet sylaglary bilen sylaglaýar, oňa harby atlary we gaýry döwlet atlaryny dakýar;
... (81-nji madda)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. Anyone who considers that a provision of the Constitution has been infringed in relation to him may, without prejudice to any other legal remedy available to him, apply to the Supreme Court for redress.
2. The Supreme Court has jurisdiction to determine the matter and to make such order as it considers appropriate to enforce the provisions of the Constitution.
3. When a question concerning the interpretation of the Constitution arises before a subordinate court, and the court considers that the question concerns a fundamental point of law, the court shall submit the question to the Supreme Court for its determination. (Art. 53) - French1) Quiconque estime qu'une disposition de la Constitution a été violée à son encontre peut, sans préjudice des autres recours légaux ouverts, saisir la Cour Suprême pour dénoncer cette violation et obtenir réparation.
2) La Cour Suprême a compétence pour déterminer si une disposition de la Constitution a été violée et pour faire une déclaration en conséquence.
3) Lorsqu'une question relative à l'interprétation de la Constitution est soulevée devant une juridiction inférieure et que celle-ci considère que la question a trait à un point de droit fondamental, cette juridiction doit, à titre préjudiciel, soumettre cette question à la Cour Suprême. (Art. 53)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishI. The Popular Action shall be filed during the period in which the violation or threat to the rights and collective interests continues. To file this action it is not necessary to exhaust the judicial or administrative processes that might exist.
II. Any person, in his or her individual name or on behalf of a collective, may file this action, and it shall be filed obligatorily by the Public Ministry and the Public Defender (Ministerio Público y el Defensor del Pueblo) when, in the exercise of their functions, they have knowledge of these acts. The procedure for the Action for Constitutional Protection shall be applied. (Art. 136) - SpanishI. La Acción Popular podrá interponerse durante el tiempo que subsista la vulneración o la amenaza a los derechos e intereses colectivos. Para interponer esta acción no será necesario agotar la vía judicial o administrativa que pueda existir.
II. Podrá interponer esta acción cualquier persona, a título individual o en representación de una colectividad y, con carácter obligatorio, el Ministerio Público y el Defensor del Pueblo, cuando por el ejercicio de sus funciones tengan conocimiento de estos actos. Se aplicará el procedimiento de la Acción de Amparo Constitucional. (Art. 136)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
1. The Coprinces, under the provisions of article 46.1.f), the Head of Government or a fifth of the General Council, may request a prior opinion about the constitutionality of international treaties prior to their ratification. Proceedings of this nature shall take priority.
… (Art. 101) - Catalan
1. Els coprínceps, en els termes de l'article 46.1.f), el cap de Govern o una cinquena part dels membres del Consell General, poden requerir dictamen previ d'inconstitucionalitat sobre els tractats internacionals abans de la seva ratificació. Aquest procediment tindrà caràcter preferent.
… (Art. 101)