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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...
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
- EnglishAll civil, penal, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria. This principle applies absolutely and generally to all articles of the Constitution as well as to all other laws and regulations, and the fuqaha' of the Guardian Council shall determine this matter. (Art. 4)
- Persianکلیه قوانین و مقررات مدنی، جزایی، مالی، اقتصادی، اداری، فرهنگی، نظامی، سیاسی و غیر اینها باید براساس موازین اسلامی باشد. این اصل بر اطلاق یا عموم همه اصول قانون اساسی و قوانین و مقررات دیگر حاکم است و تشخیص این امر بر عهده فقهاء شورای نگهبان است. (اصل 4)
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
- English1. All provisions of statutes or of administrative acts of a regulatory nature which are contrary to the Constitution are abolished as of the date the Constitution comes into force.
2. Constituent acts promulgated between July 24, 1974 and the convocation of the Fifth Revisionary Parliament, as well as parliamentary resolutions thereof shall continue to be in force even if their provisions are contrary to the Constitution; they can be amended or abolished by statute.
… (Art. 111) - Greek1. Kάθε διάταξη νόμoυ ή διoικητικής πράξης με κανoνιστικό χαρακτήρα, πoυ είναι αντίθετη πρoς τo Σύνταγμα, καταργείται από την έναρξη της ισχύoς τoυ.
2. Συντακτικές πράξεις πoυ εκδόθηκαν από τις 24 Ioυλίoυ 1974 έως τη σύγκληση της E΄ Aναθεωρητικής Boυλής, καθώς και Ψηφίσματά της, εξακoλoυθoύν να ισχύoυν και κατά τις διατάξεις τoυς τις αντίθετες πρoς τo Σύνταγμα και επιτρέπεται να τρoπoπoιηθoύν ή να καταργηθoύν με νόμo.
… (Άρθρo 111)
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
- 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
- EnglishThe application of the provisions of this Constitution shall not invalidate the obligations of Kuwait's Treaties and Agreements with States and International bodies. (Art. 177)
- Arabicلا يخل تطبيق هذا الدستور بما ارتبطت به الكويت مع الدول والهيئات الدولية من معاهدات واتفاقات. (المادّة 177)
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)
Status of the Constitution
- English1) The present Constitutional deed shall be universally binding after its promulgation as the fundamental law of the country.
… (Art. 112) - German1) Die gegenwärtige Verfassungsurkunde ist nach ihrer Verkündigung als Landesgrundgesetz allgemein verbindlich.
… (Art. 112)