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Jurisdiction and Access
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9. The Supreme Court may, on its own motion or on an application made by the Attorney General or by a party to a case, withdraw any case pending before the High Court involving a substantial question of law of general importance relating to the interpretation of this Constitution and dispose off [sic] the case itself.
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18. Every person has the right to approach the courts in matters arising out of the Constitution or other laws subject to section 23 of Article 7. (Art. 21) - Dzongkha
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༩) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་དོན་འགྲེལ་དང་འབྲེལ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་གནད་འགག་ཆེ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ དོགས་གཞི་ཅིག་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་རྩོད་གཞི་གང་རུང་ཅིག་ ཆེ་མཐོ་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལུ་བསྣར་འགྱངས་ལུས་ཡོད་ཚེ་ མངོན་མཐོ་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་རང་གི་གྲོས་དོན་ཐོག་ལས་ ཡང་ན་ རྩོད་དཔོན་ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་དང་ རྩོད་གཞིའི་རྩ་ཕན་ཅིག་ལས་ཞུ་ཡིག་ཕུལ་ཏེ་ཕྱིར་བཏོན་ ཡང་ན་ མཇུག་བསྒྲིལ་གཏང་ཆོག།
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༡༨) མི་ངོ་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ རྩ་ཚན་༧ པའི་དོན་ཚན་༢༣ པ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་ ཡང་ན་ ཁྲིམས་གཞན་སོ་སོ་ལས་ཐོན་པའི་གནད་དོན་ཚུ་གི་སྐོར་ལས་ ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལུ་བཅར་ གཏུགས་ཀྱི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༡༽
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court, at the request of the President of the Republic, of the President of the National Assembly, of at least fifteen Deputies, of the Prime Minister, of the Prosecutor General of the Republic and, of the Ombudsman, shall consider and declare:
a) The unconstitutionality of any rules or resolutions of a content that is normative and material or specific and concrete;
b) The illegality of rules and resolutions referred to in the subparagraph above. (Art. 280) - PortugueseO Tribunal Constitucional, a pedido do Presidente da República, do Presidente da Assembleia Nacional, de pelo menos quinze Deputados, do Primeiro Ministro, do Procurador-Geral da República e do Provedor de Justiça, aprecia e declara:
a) A inconstitucionalidade de quaisquer normas ou resoluções de conteúdo material normativo ou individual e concreto;
b) A ilegalidade das normas e resoluções referidas na alínea anterior. (Art. 280)