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Status of International Law
- EnglishWhen the Constitutional Court establishes that the law is not in conformity with the Constitution and confirmed and published international agreements, that is, that other regulation is not in conformity with the Constitution and the law, that law and other regulation shall cease to be valid on the date of publication of the decision of the Constitutional Court.
… (Art. 152) - MontenegrinKad Ustavni sud utvrdi da zakon nije u saglasnosti sa Ustavom i potvrđenim i objavljenim međunarodnim ugovorima, odnosno da drugi propis nije saglasan sa Ustavom i zakonom, taj zakon i drugi propis prestaje da važi danom objavljivanja odluke Ustavnog suda.
… (Član 152)
Status of International Law
- EnglishAt the request of the Government, or courts, the Supreme Court shall review the laws, legislative decrees, international treaties as well as international covenants for their compliance with the Constitution and their interpretation in accordance with the law. (Art. 121)
- Dariبررسی مطابقت قوانین، فرامین تقنینی، معاهدات بین الدول و میثاق های بین المللی با قانون اساسی و تفسیر آنها بر اساس تقاضای حكومت و یا محاكم، مطابق به احكام قانون از صلاحیت ستره محكمه می باشد. (مادۀ ۱۲۱)
- Pashtoله اساسي قانون سره د قوانينو، تقنيني فرمانونو، بين الدول معاهدو او بين المللي ميثاقونو د مطابقت څېړل، د حكومت يا محاكمو په غوښتنه او د هغو تفسير د قانون له حكمونو سره سم د سترې محكمې صلاحيت دى. (۱۲۱ ماده)
Status of International Law
- EnglishWhen interpreting and applying the rights and freedoms contained within this Chapter7 a court or tribunal shall promote the values that underlie an open and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom, and shall consider international treaties to which the Maldives is a party. (Art. 68)
- Dhivehiކޯޓުތަކުންނާއި ޓްރައިބިއުނަލްތަކުން މި ބާބުގައި ބަޔާންކޮށްފައިވާ ހައްޤުތަކާއި މިނިވަންކަން މާނަކުރުމުގައްޔާއި ލިބިދިނުމުގައި، އިންސާނީ ޝަރަފާއި ހަމަހަމކަމާއި މިނިވަންކަމަށް ބިނަކޮށް އުފެދިފައިވާ، ހުޅުވިގެންވާ ދީމިޤްރާތީ މުޖްތަމައަކުން ޤަބޫލުކުރާ އުސޫލްތަކަށް ރިއާޔަތްކޮށް އެ އުސޫލްތައް ނަގަހައްޓަންވާނެއެވެ. އަދި ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ ބައިވެރިވެފައިވާ ބައިނަލްއަޤްވާމީ މުއާހަދާތަކަށް ރިޢާޔަތްކުރާންވާނެއެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 68 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Status of International Law
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(5) The security services must act, and must teach and require their members to act, in accordance with the Constitution and the law, including customary international law and international agreements binding on the Republic.
… (Sec. 199)
Status of International Law
- English1. International agreements, previously ratified by the Republic of Poland upon the basis of constitutional provisions valid at the time of their ratification and promulgated in Dziennik Ustaw, shall be considered as agreements ratified with prior consent granted by statute, and shall be subject to the provisions of Article 91 of the Constitution if their connection with the categories of matters mentioned in Article 89, para. 1 of the Constitution derives from the terms of an international agreement.
2. The Council of Ministers shall, within 2 years of the coming into force of the Constitution, present to the Sejm a list of international agreements containing provisions not in conformity to the Constitution.
… (Art. 241) - Polish1. Umowy międzynarodowe ratyfikowane dotychczas przez Rzeczpospolitą Polską na podstawie obowiązujących w czasie ich ratyfikacji przepisów konstytucyjnych i ogłoszone w Dzienniku Ustaw, uznaje się za umowy ratyfikowane za uprzednią zgodą wyrażoną w ustawie i stosuje się do nich przepisy art. 91 Konstytucji, jeżeli z treści umowy międzynarodowej wynika, że dotyczą one kategorii spraw wymienionych w art. 89 ust. 1 Konstytucji.
2. Rada Ministrów w ciągu 2 lat od wejścia w życie Konstytucji przedstawi Sejmowi wykaz umów międzynarodowych zawierających postanowienia niezgodne z Konstytucją.
… (Art. 241)
Status of International Law
- English
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25. Except for existing International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements entered into by Bhutan, which shall continue in force subject to section 10 of Article 1, all International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements duly acceded to by the Government hereafter, shall be deemed to be the law of the Kingdom only upon ratification by Parliament unless it is inconsistent with this Constitution. (Art. 10) - Dzongkha
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༢༥) རྩ་ཚན་༡ པའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༠ པ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ འབྲུག་གིས་དངོས་གཏོགས་གྲུབ་པའི་ཆ་ གནས་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་ཚུ་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིན་ཆད་གཞུང་གིས་ངོས་སྦྱོར་ཚུལ་མཐུན་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་བཅས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་མ་མཐུན་ན་མ་གཏོགས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྦེ་ཆ་བཞག་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༠༽
Status of International Law
- English
The Supreme Court shall have the following powers:
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(2) Review, revise, reverse, modify, or affirm on appeal or certiorari, as the law or the Rules of Court may provide, final judgments and orders of lower courts in:
(a) All cases in which the constitutionality or validity of any treaty, international or executive agreement, law, presidential decree, proclamation, order, instruction, ordinance, or regulation is in question.
... (Art. VIII, Sec. 5) - Filipino
Dapat magtaglay ang Kataastaasang Hukuman ng sumusunod na mga kapangyarihan:
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(2) Rebyuhin, rebisahin, baligtarin, baguhin, o patibayan sa paghahabol o certiorari, ayon sa mga maaaring itadhana ng batas o ng mga alituntunin ng hukuman, ang mga pangwakas na pagpapasya at mga kautusan ng mga nakabababang hukuman sa:
(a) Lahat ng mga usapin na ang konstitusyonaliti o baliditi ng ano mang kasunduang-bansa, kasunduang internasyonal o tagapagpaganap, batas, dekri ng pangulo, ordinansa, kautusang tagapagpaganap, proklamasyon, o regulasyon ay pinagtatalunan.
... (Art. VIII, Sec. 5)
Status of International Law
- English
The Constitutional Court is exclusively competent in the matter of control of constitutionality:
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2- of the treaties that the President of the Republic submits to it before the promulgation of the law including the adoption of those treaties,
... (Art. 127) - Arabic
تختصّ المحكمة الدّستوريّة بالنّظر في مراقبة دستوريّة:
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2. المعاهدات التي يعرضها رئيس الجمهوريّة قبل ختم قانون الموافقة عليها.
... (الفصل 127) - French
La Cour constitutionnelle est exclusivement compétente en matière de contrôle de constitutionnalité :
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2. des traités que lui soumet le Président de la République avant la promulgation de la loi portant adoption de ces traités,
… (Art. 127)
Status of International Law
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2. The President of the Russian Federation shall have the right to suspend acts of executive government bodies of constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the event that these acts conflict with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws or with international commitments of the Russian Federation, or violate human and civil rights and freedoms until the issue is resolved by an appropriate court. (Art. 85) - Russian…
2. Президент Российской Федерации вправе приостанавливать действие актов органов исполнительной власти субъектов Российской Федерации в случае противоречия этих актов Конституции Российской Федерации и федеральным законам, международным обязательствам Российской Федерации или нарушения прав и свобод человека и гражданина до решения этого вопроса соответствующим судом. (Статья 85)
Status of International Law
- English1. If the Constitutional Court rules in favor of the unconstitutionality of a rule contained in an international treaty or agreement, the latter must not be ratified by the President of the Republic, who shall return it to the organ that had approved it.
2. An international treaty or agreement that contains a rule declared to be unconstitutional may be ratified by the President of the Republic if the National Assembly, in consulting the Government, confirms its approval by a majority of two thirds of the Deputies in full exercise of their functions.
… (Art. 279) - Portuguese1. Se o Tribunal Constitucional se pronunciar pela inconstitucionalidade da norma constante de tratado ou acordo internacional, este não deve ser ratificado pelo Presidente da República, sendo devolvido ao órgão que o tiver aprovado.
2. O tratado ou acordo internacional de que conste a norma declarada inconstitucional pode ser ratificado pelo Presidente da República se a Assembleia Nacional, ouvido o Governo, confirmar a sua aprovação por maioria de dois terços dos Deputados em efectividade de funções.
… (Art. 279)