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Status of the Constitution
- English...
X. Laws and other normative acts or individual provisions of such acts or intergovernmental treaties of the Republic of Azerbaijan shall cease to apply at the time which is indicated in the decision of the Constitutional Court that declares them to be inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan; inter-state treaties of the Republic of Azerbaijan which are declared unconstitutional shall not come into effect. (Art. 130) - Azerbaijani...
X. Qanunlar və digər aktlar yaxud onların ayrı-ayrı müddəaları, Azərbaycan Respublikasının hökumətlərarası müqavilələri Azərbaycan Respublikası Konstitusiya Məhkəməsinin qərarında müəyyən edilmiş müddətdə qüvvədən düşür, Azərbaycan Respublikasının dövlətlərarası müqavilələri isə qüvvəyə minmir. (Maddə 130)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe King shall, prior to his accession to the throne, make a solemn declaration in writing before the Council of State that he will faithfully observe the Constitutional Act.
… (Sec. 8) - DanishForinden kongen tiltræder regeringen, afgiver han skriftligt i statsrådet en højtidelig forsikring om ubrødeligt at ville holde grundloven.
… (§ 8)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court decides within the time period of one month according to a procedure whose modalities are established by an organic law.
The recourse suspends the time period of the promulgation of the law.
A provision declared unconstitutional becomes null and of no effect and may not be promulgated or applied.
… (Art. 96) - FrenchLa Cour constitutionnelle statue dans le délai d'un mois selon une procédure dont les modalités sont fixées par une loi organique.
Le recours suspend le délai de promulgation de la loi.
Une disposition déclarée inconstitutionnelle devient nulle et de nul effet et ne peut être promulguée ou appliquée.
… (Art. 96)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) This Constitution and the Organic Laws are the Supreme Law of Papua New Guinea, and, subject to Section 10 (construction of written laws) all acts (whether legislative, executive or judicial) that are inconsistent with them are, to the extent of the inconsistency, invalid and ineffective.
(2) The provisions of this Constitution and of the Organic Laws are self-executing to the fullest extent that their respective natures and subject-matters permit. (Sec. 11)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishEcuadorians have the following duties and obligations, without detriment to others provided for by the Constitution or by law:
1. To abide by and enforce the Constitution, the law and the legitimate decisions taken by the competent authority.
… (Art. 83) - SpanishSon deberes y responsabilidades de las ecuatorianas y los ecuatorianos, sin perjuicio de otros previstos en la Constitución y la ley:
1. Acatar y cumplir la Constitución, la ley y las decisiones legítimas de autoridad competente.
… (Art. 83)
Status of the Constitution
- English…
5. A judgment of the Constitutional Court shall be final. An act or a part thereof that has been recognised as unconstitutional shall cease to have legal effect as soon as the respective judgment of the Constitutional Court is made public, unless the relevant judgment envisages a later time frame for invalidating the act or a part thereof.
… (Art. 60) - Georgian…
5. საკონსტიტუციო სასამართლოს გადაწყვეტილება საბოლოოა. არაკონსტიტუციურად ცნობილი აქტი ან მისი ნაწილი კარგავს ძალას საკონსტიტუციო სასამართლოს მიერ შესაბამისი გადაწყვეტილების გამოქვეყნების მომენტიდან, თუ შესაბამისი გადაწყვეტილება არ ადგენს აქტის ან მისი ნაწილის ძალის დაკარგვის სხვა, გვიანდელ ვადას.
… (მუხლი 60)
Status of the Constitution
- English
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9. This Constitution is the Supreme Law of the State.
10. All laws in force in the territory of Bhutan at the time of adopting this Constitution shall continue until altered, repealed or amended by Parliament. However, the provisions of any law, whether made before or after the coming into force of this Constitution, which are inconsistent with this Constitution, shall be null and void.
… (Art. 1) - Dzongkha
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༩) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་མངོན་པར་མཐོ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ཨིན།
༡༠) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ཆ་འཇོག་གྲུབ་པའི་དུས་ཚོད་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་མངའ་ཁོངས་ལུ་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་ཆ་མཉམ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སོར་བཅོས་ ཡང་ན་ ཆ་མེད་ འཕྲི་སྣོན་མ་གནང་ཚུན་ དེ་ཚུའི་ཁྱབ་དབང་འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན། ཨིན་རུང་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ཆ་འཇོག་གྲུབ་ པའི་སྔ་ཕྱི་ནམ་རང་བརྩམས་པའི་ཁྲིམས་གང་ཞིག་གི་དགོངས་དོན་ཚུ་ལས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་མ་མཐུན་མི་ཚུ་ ནུས་མེད་དང་བདེན་སྟོང་ ཨིན།
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Status of the Constitution
- English1. All persons shall have the right to develop freely their personality and to participate in the social, economic and political life of the country, insofar as they do not infringe the rights of others or violate the Constitution and the good usages.
… (Art. 5) - Greek1. Kαθένας έχει δικαίωμα να αναπτύσσει ελεύθερα την προσωπικότητά του και να συμμετέχει στην κοινωνική, οικονομική και πολιτική ζωή της Xώρας, εφόσον δεν προσβάλλει τα δικαιώματα των άλλων και δεν παραβιάζει το Σύνταγμα ή τα χρηστά ήθη.
… ('Αρθρο 5)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThis Constitution shall bind all executive, legislative and judicial organs of the State at all levels of Government and all the peoples of Malawi are entitled to the equal protection of this Constitution, and laws made under it. (Sec. 4)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe Constitution is the supreme law of Guyana and, if any other law is inconsistent with it, that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void. (Art. 8)