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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court is [the] judge of the constitutionality of the laws and it guarantees the fundamental rights of the human person and the public freedoms.
It is the regulatory organ of the functioning of the institutions and of the activity of the Public Powers. (Art. 85) - FrenchLa Cour Constitutionnelle est juge de la constitutionnalité des lois et elle garantit les droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine et les libertés publiques.
Elle est l'organe régulateur du fonctionnement des institutions et de l'activité des Pouvoirs Publics. (Art. 85)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. The following may make application to the Constitutional Tribunal regarding matters specified in Article 188:
1) the President of the Republic, the Marshal of the Sejm, the Marshal of the Senate, the Prime Minister, 50 Deputies, 30 Senators, the First President of the Supreme Court, the President of the Chief Administrative Court, the Public Prosecutor-General, the President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, the Commissioner for Citizens' Rights,
2) the National Council of the Judiciary, to the extent specified in Article 186, para. 2;
3) the constitutive organs of units of local self-government;
4) the national organs of trade unions as well as the national authorities of employers' organizations and occupational organizations;
5) churches and religious organizations;
6) the subjects referred to in Article 79 to the extent specified therein.
2. The subjects referred to in para. 1 subparas. 3-5, may make such application if the normative act relates to matters relevant to the scope of their activity. (Art. 191) - Polish1. Z wnioskiem w sprawach, o których mowa w art. 188, do Trybunału Konstytucyjnego wystąpić mogą:
1.) Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej, Marszałek Sejmu, Marszałek Senatu, Prezes Rady Ministrów, 50 posłów, 30 senatorów, Pierwszy Prezes Sądu Najwyższego, Prezes Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego, Prokurator Generalny, Prezes Najwyższej Izby Kontroli, Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich,
2.) Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa w zakresie, o którym mowa w art. 186 ust. 2,
3.) organy stanowiące jednostek samorządu terytorialnego,
4.) ogólnokrajowe organy związków zawodowych oraz ogólnokrajowe władze organizacji pracodawców i organizacji zawodowych,
5.) kościoły i inne związki wyznaniowe,
6.) podmioty określone w art. 79 w zakresie w nim wskazanym.
2. Podmioty, o których mowa w ust. 1 pkt 3-5, mogą wystąpić z takim wnioskiem, jeżeli akt normatywny dotyczy spraw objętych ich zakresem działania. (Art. 191)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English[The following] are duties and attributions of the Supreme Court of Justice:
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5. to take cognizance [conocer] and to decide [resolver] on unconstitutionality;
… (Art. 259) - SpanishSon deberes y atribuciones de la Corte Suprema de Justicia:
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5. conocer y resolver sobre inconstitucionalidad;
… (Art. 259)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
Courts shall not be entitled to apply the laws and other normative legal acts that infringe on the rights and freedoms of a human and a citizen enshrined in the Constitution. If the court sees that a law or other normative legal act to be applied infringes on the rights and freedoms of a human and a citizen enshrined in the Constitution, it shall be obliged to suspend the proceedings and apply to the Constitutional Court with a motion to recognize this act as unconstitutional. (Art. 78)
- Kazak
Соттардың Конституциямен баянды етілген адамның және азаматтың құқықтары мен бостандықтарына нұқсан келтіретін заңдар мен өзге де нормативтік құқықтық актілерді қолдануға хақысы жоқ. Егер сот қолданылуға тиісті заң немесе өзге де нормативтік құқықтық акт Конституциямен баянды етілген адамның және азаматтың құқықтары мен бостандықтарына нұқсан келтіреді деп тапса, іс жүргізуді тоқтата тұруға және осы актіні конституциялық емес деп тану туралы ұсыныспен Конституциялық Сотқа жүгінуге міндетті. (78-бап)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. Supreme Court decisions harmonising questions of law and other decisions made on grounds of unconstitutionality must be referred to the Constitutional Council in the following cases:
a. in the event of a refusal to apply any rule on grounds of its unconstitutionality;
b. when the Attorney General of the Republic or the Public Prosecution Service requests an abstract evaluation of the constitutionality or legality of a rule whose application has been refused, on grounds of unconstitutionality or illegality, by judicial decision from which there is no appeal.
2. The law shall regulate the rules on admissibility of appeals contemplated in this provision. (Art. 246) - Portuguese1. Devem ser remetidos obrigatoriamente para o Conselho Constitucional, os acórdãos e outras decisões com fundamento na inconstitucionalidade, nos seguintes casos:
a) quando se recuse a aplicação de qualquer norma com base na sua inconstitucionalidade;
b) quando o Procurador-Geral da República ou o Ministério Público solicite a apreciação abstracta da constitucionalidade ou da legalidade de qualquer norma, cuja aplicação tenha sido recusada, com a justificação de inconstitucionalidade ou ilegalidade, por decisão judicial insusceptível de recurso.
2. A lei regula o regime de admissão dos recursos previstos nesta disposição. (Art. 246)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishA proceedings of assessing the constitutionality may be instituted by state bodies, bodies of territorial autonomy or local self-government, as well as at least 25 deputies. The procedure may also be instituted by the Constitutional Court.
Any legal or natural person shall have the right to an initiative to institute a proceedings of assessing the constitutionality and legality.
… (Art. 168) - Serbian CyrillicПоступак за оцену уставности и законитости могу да покрену државни органи, органи територијалне аутономије или локалне самоуправе, као и најмање 25 народних посланика. Поступак може покренути и сам Уставни суд.
Свако правно или физичко лице има право на иницијативу за покретање поступка за оцену уставности и законитости.
... (Члан 168)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of section 36 of this Constitution, an appeal shall lie from decisions of the High Court to the Court of Appeal as of right in the following cases-
a. final decision in any civil or criminal proceedings on questions as to the interpretation of this Constitution;
b. final decisions given in exercise of the jurisdiction conferred on the High Court by section 16 of this Constitution (which relates to the enforcement of the fundamental rights and freedoms); and
c. such other cases as may be prescribed by Parliament. (Sec. 98)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishA Constitutional Tribunal shall be set up to interpret the provisions of the Constitution, to scrutinize whether or not laws enacted by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the Region Hluttaws and the State Hluttaws and functions of executive authorities of Pyidaungsu, Regions, States and Self-Administered-Areas are in conformity with the Constitution, to decide on disputes relating to the Constitution between Pyidaungsu and Regions, between Pyidaungsu and States, among Regions, among States, and between Regions or States and Self-Administered Areas and among Self-Administered Areas themselves, and to perform other duties prescribed in this Constitution. (Sec. 46)
- Burmeseဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များကို အနက်အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုခြင်း၊ ပြည်ထောင်စု လွှတ်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်များနှင့် ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်များက ပြဌာန်းသည့် ဥပဒေများ သည်လည်းကောင်း၊ ပြည်ထောင်စု၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများ၊ ပြည်နယ်များနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင်စုများ၏ အုပ်ချုပ်မှုဆိုင်ရာ အာဏာပိုင်များ၏ ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များသည်လည်းကောင်း၊ နိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့် ညီညွှတ်မှုရှိ၊ မရှိစိစစ်ခြင်း၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုနှင့် တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအကြား၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုနှင့် ပြည်နယ်အကြား၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအချင်းချင်း၊ ပြည်နယ်အချင်းချင်း၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရစီရင်စုအကြား၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင်စုအချင်းချင်း ဖြစ်ပေါ်သည့် နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ အခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ အငြင်းပွားမှုများကို ကြားနာဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်းနှင့် ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ အခြေခံဥပဒေက အပ်နှင်းသည့် အခြားတာဝန်များ ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းတို့ကို ပြုနိုင်ရန် နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ အခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ ခုံရုံးတစ်ရုံးကို ဖွဲ့စည်းရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၄၆)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English…
2. Questions of unconstitutionality may be raised officiously by the court, the Public Prosecutor or by either party.
3. Should the question of unconstitutionality be raised, the incident shall be filed separately with the Constitutional Court, which shall decide.
… (Art. 129) - Portuguese…
2. A questão da inconstitucionalidade pode ser levantada oficiosamente pelo tribunal, pelo Ministério Público ou por qualquer das partes.
3. Admitida a questão da inconstitucionalidade, o incidente sobe em separado para o Tribunal Constitucional, que decidirá.
… (Art. 129)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishIf a judicial body considers, when hearing a case, that a regulation having the force of an act which is applicable thereto and upon the validity of which the judgment depends, might be contrary to the Constitution, it may bring the matter before the Constitutional Court in the circumstances, manner and subject to the consequences to be laid down by law, which shall in no case have a suspensive effect. (Sec. 163)
- SpanishCuando un órgano judicial considere, en algún proceso, que una norma con rango de ley, aplicable al caso, de cuya validez dependa el fallo, pueda ser contraria a la Constitución, planteará la cuestión ante el Tribunal Constitucional en los supuestos, en la forma y con los efectos que establezca la ley, que en ningún caso serán suspensivos. (Art. 163)