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Jurisdiction and Access
- English…
2. … The Supreme Court, pursuant to its power of judicial review, is empowered to declare any inconsistent laws unconstitutional. (Art. 2)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishLaws may be declared unconstitutional because of their form or content.
The Supreme Court of Justice has original and exclusive jurisdiction over hearing and deciding such matters and must render its decisions in accordance with the requirements governing final judgments. (Art. 184) - SpanishLas leyes podrán ser declaradas inconstitucionales por razón de forma o de contenido.
A la Corte Suprema de Justicia le compete el conocimiento y la resolución originaria y exclusiva en la materia, y deberá pronunciarse con los requisitos de las sentencias definitivas. (Art. 184)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
(1) The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to ordinarily determine any such question as aforesaid may be invoked by the President by a written reference addressed to the Chief Justice, or by any citizen by a petition in writing addressed to the Supreme Court. ... In this paragraph “citizen” includes a body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, if not less than three-fourths of the members of such body are citizens.
… (Art. 121) - Sinhala
ඉහත කී පරිදි වූ එවැනි යම් ප්රශ්නයක් පිළිබඳව සාමාන්යයෙන් තීරණය කිරීමට ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට ඇති අධිකරණ බලය අග්ර විනිශ්චයකාරවරයා අමතා ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් යවනු ලබන ලිඛිත යොමු කිරීමක් මගින් නැතහොත් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය අමතා කවර වූ හෝ පුරවැසියකු විසින් යවනු ලබන ලිඛිත පෙත්සමක් මගින් ක්රියාත්මක කරවා ගත හැක්කේ ය.ගගගමේ අනුව්යවස්ථාවෙහි — පුරවැසියා ˜ යන්නට සාමාජික සංඛ්යාවෙන් හතරෙන් තුනකට නොඅඩු සංඛ්යාවක් පුරවැසියන් වන්නා වූ සංස්ථාගත කළ හෝ සංස්ථාගත නොකළ මණ්ඩලයක් ඇතුළත් වේ.
... (121 වැනි වගන්තිය)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. An appeal shall lie as of right to the Judicial Committee from any decision of the High Court involving the interpretation of this Constitution in any proceedings in which application has been made to the High Court alleging that any provision of this Constitution has been contravened and the rights or interests of any Banaban or of the Rabi Council under this Chapter or Chapter III are being or are likely to be affected by such contravention.
… (Sec. 123)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. An appeal shall lie from decisions of the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court to the Judicial Committee as of right in the following cases
a. final decisions, in any civil or criminal proceedings, on questions as to the interpretation of this Constitution;
… (Sec. 81)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Supreme Court of Justice has the faculty to declare the unconstitutionality of the juridical norms and of the judicial resolutions, in the manner and to the extent [alcances] established in this Constitution and in the law. (Art. 132)
- SpanishLa corte suprema de Justicia tiene facultad para declarar la inconstitucionalidad de las normas jurídicas y de las resoluciones judiciales, en la forma y con los alcances establecidos en esta Constitución y en la ley. (Art. 132)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe President of the Republic, the two political party groups having the largest number of members in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, and at least one-fifth of the total number of members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey shall have the right to apply for annulment action directly to the Constitutional Court, based on the assertion of the unconstitutionality, in form and in substance, of laws, of presidential decrees, of Rules of Procedure of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey or of certain articles or provisions thereof. (Art. 150)
- TurkishKanunların, Cumhurbaşkanlığı kararnamelerinin, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi İçtüzüğünün veya bunların belirli madde ve hükümlerinin şekil ve esas bakımından Anayasaya aykırılığı iddiasıyla Anayasa Mahkemesinde doğrudan doğruya iptal davası açabilme hakkı, Cumhurbaşkanına, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisinde en fazla üyeye sahip iki siyasi parti grubuna ve üye tamsayısının en az beşte biri tutarındaki üyelere aittir. (Madde 150)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
It corresponds to the Constitutional Tribunal:
1. To take cognizance, in sole instance, of the action of unconstitutionality.
2. To take cognizance, in final and definitive instance, of resolutions denying habeas corpus, amparo, habeas data, and action of cumplimiento.
3. To take cognizance of the conflicts of competence, or of attributions assigned by the Constitution, in accordance with law. (Art. 202) - Spanish
Corresponde al Tribunal Constitucional:
1. Conocer, en instancia única, la acción de inconstitucionalidad.
2. Conocer, en última y definitiva instancia, las resoluciones denegatorias de hábeas corpus, amparo, hábeas data, y acción de cumplimiento.
3. Conocer los conflictos de competencia, o de atribuciones asignadas por la Constitución, conforme a ley. (Art. 202)
Jurisdiction and Access
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The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall:
1) define the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan and resolutions of the chambers of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decrees, resolutions and orders of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions of the government, decisions of local bodies of state authority, interstate treaties and other obligations of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
2) conform the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the constitutional laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan — until they are signed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan — until they are signed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan on their ratification;
3) conform the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan with issues to be submitted to the referendum;
4) conform the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Karakalpakstan to the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, laws of the Republic of Karakalpakstan — to laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
5) interpret the norms of the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
6) consider the appeal of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, initiated by the courts, on compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, normative-legal acts subjects to application in concrete cases;
7) based on summarizing practices of the constitutional legal procedures, represent annually the information on a status of constitutional lawfulness to the Chambers of of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
8) hear other cases relating to its competence in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The citizens and legal entities shall have the right to apply to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan with a complaint about the compliance with the Constitution of the law applied to them by the court in a specific case, the consideration of which in court has been completed, and if all other remedies have been exhausted.
… (Art. 133) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyaviy sudi:
1) O‘zbekiston Respublikasi qonunlarining va O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi palatalari qarorlarining, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidenti farmonlari, qarorlari va farmoyishlarining, hukumat, mahalliy davlat hokimiyati organlari qarorlarining, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi davlatlararo shartnomaviy va boshqa majburiyatlarining O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligini aniqlaydi;
2) O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidenti tomonidan imzolanguniga qadar — O‘zbekiston Respublikasi konstitutsiyaviy qonunlarining, ratifikatsiya qilish to‘g‘risidagi O‘zbekiston Respublikasi qonunlari O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidenti tomonidan imzolanguniga qadar — O‘zbekiston Respublikasi xalqaro shartnomalarining O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligini aniqlaydi;
3) referendumga chiqarilayotgan masalalarning O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risida xulosa beradi;
4) Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyasining O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasiga, Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi qonunlarining O‘zbekiston Respublikasining qonunlariga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risida xulosa beradi;
5) O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasi va qonunlari normalariga sharh beradi;
6) O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy sudining muayyan ishda qo‘llanilishi lozim bo‘lgan normativ-huquqiy hujjatlarning O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risida sudlar tashabbusi bilan kiritilgan murojaatini ko‘rib chiqadi;
7) konstitutsiyaviy sudlov ishlarini yuritish amaliyotini umumlashtirish natijalari yuzasidan har yili O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi palatalariga va O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidentiga mamlakatdagi konstitutsiyaviy qonuniylikning holati to‘g‘risida axborot taqdim etadi;
8) O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasi va qonunlari bilan berilgan vakolati doirasida boshqa ishlarni ko‘rib chiqadi.
Fuqarolar va yuridik shaxslar, agar sud orqali himoya qilishning boshqa barcha vositalaridan foydalanib bo‘lingan bo‘lsa, sudda ko‘rib chiqilishi tugallangan muayyan ishda sud tomonidan o‘ziga nisbatan qo‘llanilgan qonunning Konstitutsiyaga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risidagi shikoyat bilan O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyaviy sudiga murojaat qilishga haqli.
… (133-modda)
Jurisdiction and Access
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The Council of State gives its opinion on the bills and proposals of law as well as on the amendments which might be proposed.
If it considers that a bill or proposal of law includes provisions which are nonconform with the Constitution, with the international treaties to which the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a party, with the juridical acts of the European Union or with the general principles of law [droit], it mentions it in its opinion.
... (Art. 95)