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Status of International Law
- English(1) No treaty between the Federation and any other country shall have the force of law except to the extent to which any such treaty has been enacted into law by the National Assembly.
… (Sec. 12)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe following are functions of the Office of Public Prosecutions:
1. In judicial proceedings, to guarantee respect for constitutional rights and guarantees, as well as those deriving from international treaties, agreements and conventions signed by the Republic.
… (Art. 285) - SpanishSon atribuciones del Ministerio Público:
1. Garantizar en los procesos judiciales el respeto de los derechos y garantías constitucionales, así como de los tratados, convenios y acuerdos internacionales suscritos por la República.
… (Art. 285)
Status of International Law
- English1. Laws and international treaties recognized as non-compliant with the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan may not be signed or, accordingly, ratified and enforced.
… (Art. 74) - Kazak1. Қазақстан Республикасының Конституциясына сәйкес емес деп танылған заңдар мен халықаралық шарттарға қол қойылмайды не, тиiсiнше, бекiтiлмейдi және күшiне енгiзiлмейдi.
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Status of International Law
- 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 International Law
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Treaties on matters of special importance, and, in all cases, treaties whose implementation, according to the Constitution, necessitates a new law or a decision by the Storting, are not binding until the Storting has given its consent thereto. (Art. 26) - Norwegian…
Traktater om saker som er av særlig stor viktighet, og i alle tilfeller traktater hvis iverksettelse etter Grunnloven nødvendiggjør en ny lov eller stortingsbeslutning, blir først bindende når Stortinget har gitt sitt samtykke dertil. (§ 26)
Status of International Law
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(2) An international agreement binds the Republic only after it has been approved by resolution in both the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, unless it is an agreement referred to in subsection (3).
(3) An international agreement of a technical, administrative or executive nature, or an agreement which does not require either ratification or accession, entered into by the national executive, binds the Republic without approval by the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, but must be tabled in the Assembly and the Council within a reasonable time.
(4) Any international agreement becomes law in the Republic when it is enacted into law by national legislation; but a self-executing provision of an agreement that has been approved by Parliament is law in the Republic unless it is inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act of Parliament.
(5) The Republic is bound by international agreements which were binding on the Republic when this Constitution took effect. (Sec. 231)
Status of International Law
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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(1) The functions, duties and powers of the National Dalit Commission shall be as follows:
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(d) to make suggestions to the Government of Nepal about the preparation of reports to be submitted by Nepal in accordance with the provisions contained in the international treaties or agreements concerning the rights of the Dalit community, to which Nepal is a party,
… (Art. 256) - Nepali(१) राष्ट्रिय दलित आयोगको काम, कर्तव्य र अधिकार देहाय बमोजिम हुनेछ:
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(घ) दलित समुदायको अधिकारसंग सम्बन्धित नेपाल पक्ष भएको अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सन्धि वा सम्झौतामा भएको व्यवस्था बमोजिम नेपालले पठाउनु पर्ने प्रतिवेदन तयारीका सम्बन्धमा नेपाल सरकारलाई सुझाव दिने,
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Status of International Law
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(3) If the constitutionality of a treaty or international agreement has been found according to article 146 b), such a document cannot be the subject of an objection of unconstitutionality. The treaty or international agreement found to be unconstitutional shall not be ratified.
… (Art. 147) - Romanian…
(3) În cazul în care constituţionalitatea tratatului sau acordului internaţional a fost constatată potrivit articolului 146 litera b), acesta nu poate face obiectul unei excepţii de neconstituţionalitate. Tratatul sau acordul internaţional constatat ca fiind neconstituţional nu poate fi ratificat.
… (Art. 147)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court is the sole body competent to oversee the constitutionality of the following:
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- Treaties presented to it by the President of the Republic before the draft law approving them is signed.
... (Art. 120) - Arabicتختص المحكمة الدستورية دون سواها:
-بمراقبة دستورية
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- المعاهدات التي يعرضها عليها رئيس الجمهورية قبل ختم مشروع قانون الموافقة عليها.
... (الفصل 120) - FrenchLa Cour constitutionnelle est seule compétente pour contrôler la constitutionnalité :
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- des traités que lui soumet le Président de la République avant la promulgation du projet de loi relatif à l’approbation de ces traités ;
… (Art. 120)