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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
- English1. The Constitution shall be the supreme law of the Republic of Angola.
2. The state shall be subject to the Constitution and shall be based on the rule of law, respecting the law and ensuring that the law is respected.
3. Laws, treaties and other acts of the state, local government bodies and public bodies in general shall only be valid if they conform to the Constitution. (Art. 6) - Portuguese1. A Constituição é a lei suprema da República de Angola.
2. O Estado subordina-se à Constituição e funda-se na legalidade, devendo respeitar e fazer respeitar as leis.
3. As leis, os tratados e os demais actos do Estado, dos órgãos do poder local e dos entes públicos em geral só são válidos se forem conformes à Constituição. (Art. 6)
Status of the Constitution
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2. The judgment admitting the unconstitutionality of a treaty shall prevent its ratification. In all cases the conclusion of an international treaty including stipulations contrary to the Constitution shall require the previous revision of the latter. (Art. 101) - Catalan…
2. La resolució estimatòria d'inconstitucionalitat impedirà la ratificació del tractat. En tot cas, la celebració d'un tractat internacional que contingui estipulacions que contradiguin la Constitució exigirà la reforma prèvia d'aquesta. (Art. 101)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThe legislation now [actuellement] in force remains applicable, insofar as it does not have anything contrary to this Constitution, except express abrogation. (Art. 182)
- FrenchLa législation actuellement en vigueur reste applicable, en ce qu'elle n'a rien de contraire à la présente Constitution, sauf abrogation expresse. (Art. 182)
Status of the Constitution
- English…
(6) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, this Chapter applies to all laws in force at the commencement of this Constitution.
(7) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, laws made, and administrative and judicial actions taken, after the commencement of this Constitution, are subject to the provisions of this Chapter.
… (Sec. 6) - iTaukei…
(6) Kevaka e dua tale na tikina ena Yavunivakavulewa qo e yalana, na Wase qo e okati kina na lawa taucoko ena gauna sa taurivaki kina na Yavunivakavulewa qo.
(7) Kevaka e dua tale na tikina ena Yavunivakavulewa qo e yalana, na lawa buli, na veiqaravi kei na lewa e tau ni sa taurivaki na Yavunivakavulewa qo, era na vakarurugi ena Wase qo.
… (Sec. 6)
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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༽
Status of the Constitution
- English
A provision declared unconstitutional may not be promulgated or implemented.
The decisions of the Constitutional Council are not susceptible to any recourse. They impose themselves on the public powers and on all the administrative and jurisdictional authorities. (Art. 159) - French
Une disposition déclarée inconstitutionnelle ne peut être promulguée ni mise en application.
Les décisions du Conseil constitutionnel ne sont susceptibles d’aucun recours. Elles s’imposent aux pouvoirs publics et à toutes les autorités administratives et juridictionnelles. (Art. 159)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) The Constitution shall be the supreme law, and no other law shall contravene it.
(2) The provisions of the Constitution shall apply directly.
… (Art. 5) - Bulgarian(1) Конституцията е върховен закон и другите закони не могат да й противоречат.
(2) Разпоредбите на Конституцията имат непосредствено действие.
... (Чл. 5)
Status of the Constitution
- English(1) Except where it is otherwise inconsistent with this Constitution and subject to subparagraph (2), an existing law shall continue in force on and after the date of coming into force of this Constitution.
(2) The Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1981 shall unless sooner repealed, cease to have effect twelve months after the date of coming into force of this Constitution.
… (Schedule 7, Transitional, Part I, Art. 2)
Status of the Constitution
- EnglishThis Act shall bind the Crown. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 3)