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Status of the Constitution
- Englisha. The Transitional Constitution of Sudan of 2005 and the constitutions of provinces is repealed, while the laws issued thereunder remain in force, unless they are repealed or amended.
b. The decrees issued from 11 April 2019 until the date of signature of this Constitutional Charter remain in force, unless they are repealed or amended by the Transitional Military Council. If they contradict any provisions of this Constitutional Charter, the provisions of the present Declaration prevail. (Art. 2) - Arabicا. يلغي العمل بدستور جمهورية السودان الانتقالية لسنة 2005م ودساتير الولايات، علي ان تظل القوانين الصادره بموجبها سارية المفعول ما لم تلغ او تعدل.
ب. تعتبر المراسيم الصادرة من 11 ابريل 2009م وحتي تاريخ التوقيع علي هذة الوثيق الدستورية سارية المفعول ما لم تلغ او تعدل من قبل المجلس التشريعي الانتقالي و في حالة تعارض مع اي من احكام هذة الوثيقة الدستورية تسود احكام هذة الوثيقة. (الماده 2)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishI. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is an autonomous State which forms part of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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IV. The Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan are binding in the territory of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.
V. The Constitution and laws of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic must not contradict the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic must not contradict the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the decrees of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
… (Art. 134) - AzerbaijaniI. Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası Azərbaycan Respublikasının tərkibində muxtar dövlətdir.
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IV. Azərbaycan Respublikası Konstitusiyası, qanunları, Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin fərmanları və Azərbaycan Respublikası Nazirlər Kabinetinin qərarları Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikasının ərazisində məcburidir.
V. Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası Ali Məclisinin qəbul etdiyi Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikasının Konstitusiyası və qanunları müvafiq olaraq Azərbaycan Respublikasının Konstitusiyasına və qanunlarına; Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikasının Nazirlər Kabinetinin qəbul etdiyi qərarlar Azərbaycan Respublikası Konstitusiyasına, qanunlarına, Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin fərmanlarına, Azərbaycan Respublikası Nazirlər Kabinetinin qərarlarına zidd olmamalıdır.
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Status of the Constitution
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4. If the Constitutional court decides that the laws, decrees and other decisions of the State Great Khural and the President as well as Government decisions and international treaties to which Mongolia is a party are inconsistent with the Constitution, the laws, decrees, instruments of ratification and decisions in question shall be considered invalid. (Art. 66) - Mongolian
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4. Хууль, зарлиг, Улсын Их Хурал, Ерөнхийлөгчийн бусад шийдвэр, түүнчлэн Засгийн газрын шийдвэр, Монгол Улсын олон улсын гэрээ нь Үндсэн хуульд нийцээгүй гэж Үндсэн хуулийн цэц шийдвэр гаргавал зохих хууль, зарлиг, батламж, шийдвэр хүчингүй болно. (Жаран зургадугаар зүйл)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe Constitution may not be suspended. (Art. 93)
- FrenchLa Constitution ne peut faire l'objet d'aucune mesure de suspension. (Art. 93)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishIf the Constitutional Court has declared that an international engagement includes a clause contrary to the Constitution, the authorization to ratify it or to approve it may only intervene after the revision of the Constitution. (Art. 222)
- FrenchSi la Cour constitutionnelle a déclaré qu’un engagement international comporte une clause contraire à la Constitution, l’autorisation de le ratifier ou de l’approuver ne peut intervenir qu’après révision de la Constitution. (Art. 222)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishWe the people of Zimbabwe, …
And, imploring the guidance and support of Almighty God, hereby make this Constitution and commit ourselves to it as the fundamental law of our beloved land. (Preamble)
Status of the Constitution
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20. The Druk Gyalpo shall abdicate the Throne for willful violations of this Constitution or for being subject to permanent mental disability, on a motion passed by a joint sitting of Parliament in accordance with the procedure as laid down in sections 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 of this Article.
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༢༠) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་མཁྱེན་བཞིན་དུ་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ལས་འགལ་བ་ ཡང་ན་ དྲན་ཤེས་ཀྱིས་རྩ་གཏན་ལས་ ལྕོགས་ གྲུབ་ མེད་ པའི་དབང་ལུ་ཐལ་བའི་གྲོས་དོན་ཅིག་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དོན་ཚན་༢༡ པ་དང་ ༢༢ པ་ ༢༣ པ་ ༢༤ པ་ ༢༥ པ་བཅས་ ཀྱི་ནང་བཀོད་པའི་ བྱ་བའི་ གནད་སྤྱོད་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ལྷན་བཞུགས་ཀྱིས་ཆ་འཇོག་གྲུབ་ཚེ་ རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་སྤང་ནི།
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Status of the Constitution
- EnglishLaws, regulations and decisions in force in Palestine before the implementation of this law shall remain in force to the extent that they do not contradict the provisions of this Basic Law, until they are amended or repealed, in accordance with the law. (Art. 118)
- Arabicفيما لا يتعارض وأحكام هذا القانون الأساسي المعدل تظل سارية القوانين واللوائح والقرارات المعمول بها في فلسطين قبل العمل بهذا القانون إلى أن تعدل أو تلغى وفقاً للقانون. (المادّة 118)
Status of the Constitution
- English1. Sovereignty is single and indivisible and lies with the people, who exercise it in the forms provided for in the Constitution.
2. The state is subject to the Constitution and is based on democratic legality.
3. The validity of laws and other acts of the state, the autonomous regions, local government and any other public entities is dependent on their conformity with the Constitution. (Art. 3) - Portuguese1. A soberania, una e indivisível, reside no povo, que a exerce segundo as formas previstas na Constituição.
2. O Estado subordina-se à Constituição e funda-se na legalidade democrática.
3. A validade das leis e dos demais actos do Estado, das regiões autónomas, do poder local e de quaisquer outras entidades públicas depende da sua conformidade com a Constituição. (Art. 3)
Status of the Constitution
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A provision declared unconstitutional may not be promulgated or implemented. (Art. 79) - Arabic...
لا يمكن إصدار أو تنفيذ أحكام معلنة غير دستورية. (المادة 79) - French…
Une disposition déclarée inconstitutionnelle ne peut être promulguée ni mise en application. (Art. 79)