Sentences with phrase «territories under its jurisdiction»

(1) For the purpose of this Treaty the territory of a Contracting Party shall include all territory under the jurisdiction of that Contracting Party, including air space and territorial waters and vessels and aircraft registered in that Contracting Party or aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business, or, if the lessee has no such place of business, his permanent residence in, that Contracting Party if any such aircraft is in flight, or if any such vessel is on the high seas when the offense is committed.

[63] The Convention against Torture obligates a state to «take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.»

Not exact matches

Like a medieval petty lord demanding a toll for transporting goods across his territory, Coderre has claimed that his municipality can now override federal jurisdiction in blocking national infrastructure under the guise of «social license».

Apparently, «Chinese citizens fully enjoy freedom of speech on the internet,» yet one has to take into account that «[w] ithin Chinese territory the internet is under the jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty.

The state has a vital role to play in both ensuring that all companies that operate under its jurisdiction meet their social obligations (by, for example, taxing them on all revenue generated within a territory), while at the same time promoting forms of corporate governance that cement company independence as a means of protecting against the abuse of economic power.

One of the charges read, «That you, Adegbite Adetoye and Ponnle Abiodun whilst being directors of Origin Oil and Gas Limited on or about the 8th day of October 2010 to December, 2011 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and with intent to defraud, conspired to obtain the sum of N735, 132, 076.18 From the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.»

«That you, Isah Hamman Misau of Hamman Misau Residence, Turaki Street, Misau, Bauchi State, on or about December 15, 2014, at the Independent National Electoral Commission Headquarters, Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did utter a false document to wit: a Statutory Declaration of Age deposed to at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on December 15, 2014, by submitting same to the Independent National Electoral Commission knowing it to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.»

In order to convince states and territories to sign on to the reform, different deals were done with different jurisdictions, and Labor promised that no school would lose a dollar under the plan.

By using this Site and / or providing us with your personal information, you waive any claims that may arise under the laws of other countries or territories located outside of the United States or states other than Indiana, and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Indiana and the federal courts of Indiana.

Pet Stores: The banning of selling animals in pet stores falls under provincial jurisdiction but New Democrats are open to working with the Provinces, Territories and other stakeholders to implement measures to prevent cruelty and suffering of animals,

They do not usually adopt out of the service territory but may if area is not under geographic jurisdiction of another golden rescue.

The main issue was whether phrases referring to «the territory of Morocco» and «waters under Moroccan jurisdiction» (Article 11 FPA), «fishing zones» of Morocco (Article 5 FPA), and «waters falling within the sovereignty or jurisdiction» of Morocco (Article 2 (a) FPA) were to be understood as including the waters adjacent to Western Sahara.

«Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.»

(a) Whoever knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, to engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both»; (b) Whoever, using the mail or any facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years, to engage in prostitution or any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 10 years or for life.

255 (1) If a recreation committee or a joint recreation committee is appointed under a regulation made under the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation Act for territory without municipal organization within the jurisdiction of a board, the board,

Every district school area board the area of jurisdiction of which includes territory without municipal organization that is not deemed under section 56 or subsection 58.1 (2) to be attached to a municipality, on the residential property and business property in that territory taxable for school purposes, according to the last returned assessment roll.

256 (1) Where a public library has been established for a school section in territory without municipal organization that is deemed to be a district municipality within the area of jurisdiction of an English - language public district school board under subsection 58.1 (2), the English - language public district school board shall be deemed to be an appointing council for the district municipality under section 24 of the Public Libraries Act and the amount of the estimates of the board of the public library appropriated for the board of the public library by the English - language public district school board shall be raised by a levy imposed by the English - language public district school board on all the rateable property in the district municipality and the estimated expenses to be incurred by the English - language public board in connection with raising the levy shall be recoverable by the board and shall be included in the levy imposed under this section.

(b) is evidenced by a policy issued in another province or territory of Canada, the United States of America or a jurisdiction designated in the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule by an insurer that has filed an undertaking under section 226.1; («contrat»)

A 2016 Supreme Court decision recognized that Métis and Non-Status Indians are under the jurisdiction of the federal government, which has implications for recognition of rights to traditional territory.

In the Canadian legal system, Aboriginal title is recognized as sui generis, meaning it is the unique collective right to use of, and jurisdiction over, ancestral territory and is separate from the rights of non-Aboriginal Canadian citizens under common law.

Most workplaces will fall under provincial or territorial jurisdiction — but if you are uncertain, you can contact your province or territory's human rights commission or human rights tribunal to find out.

Because immigration and refugee law is governed under federal law, legal support services delivered through websites in other provinces and territories can also be used in Alberta, although one must be careful not to rely on jurisdiction - specific information.

The new nexus does not bring under the State's jurisdiction «anyone adversely affected by an act imputable to a Contracting State, wherever in the world» as the ECtHR feared, but the State would incur responsibility for the failure to exercise its due diligence within its territory.

Ordinarily, when the territory of a sovereign power is spoken of, it refers to that tract of country which is under the political jurisdiction of that sovereign power.

Thus it will be seen by these quotations from the opinion that the court, after stating the question it was about to decide in a manner too plain to be misunderstood, proceeded to decide it, and announced, as the opinion of the tribunal, that in organizing the judicial department of the Government in a Territory of the United States, Congress does not act under, and is not restricted by, the third article in the Constitution, and is not bound, in a Territory, to ordain and establish courts in which the judges hold their offices during good behaviour, but may exercise the discretionary power which a State exercises in establishing its judicial department and regulating the jurisdiction of its courts, and may authorize the Territorial Government to establish, or may itself establish, courts in which the judges hold their offices for a term of years only, and may vest in them judicial power upon subjects confided to the judiciary of the United States.

Where the child has his or her habitual residence in the territory of a third State which is not a contracting party to the Hague Convention of 19 October 1996 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition, enforcement and cooperation in respect of parental responsibility and measures for the protection of children, jurisdiction under this Article shall be deemed to be in the child's interest, in particular if it is found impossible to hold proceedings in the third State in question.

Second: countries can obtain jurisdiction over criminal acts that took place outside of its own territory under many doctrines: for instance, if you used your boat for human trafficking or child prostitution, the U.S. would likely have jurisdiction over any case in which an American was a victim under the doctrine of passive personalty.

The courts of a Contracting State chosen by the parties and the courts of the Contracting State on the territory of which the object is situated have jurisdiction to grant relief under Article 13 (1)(a), (b), (c) and Article 13 (4) in respect of that object.

For the purposes of this Agreement, «Intellectual Property Rights» means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.

It is the unique collective right to use of, and jurisdiction over, ancestral territory and is separate from the rights of non-Aboriginal Canadian citizens under common law.

The Offered Securities will be offered on a private placement basis, pursuant to prospectus exemptions under National Instrument 45 - 106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions in all provinces and territories of Canada, in the United States by way of private placement to selected accredited investors and / or to qualified institutional investors and outside of Canada and the United States on a private placement or equivalent basis in accordance with applicable laws, provided that such laws permit offers and sales of the Offered Securities on a private placement basis and without any obligation on the part of the Company to prepare or file any registration statement, prospectus or other disclosure document and without triggering any disclosure obligations or submission to the jurisdiction on the part of the Company.

While, for instance, responsibilities for education and health are shared between the Commonwealth, States and Territories, responsibility for record - keeping and access resides separately with each jurisdiction; that for juvenile justice and welfare lies with the States and Territories, and the Commonwealth has «special» responsibility for Indigenous people under s 51 (26) of the Constitution (the races power), as well as for Australia's international human rights obligations by way of its Executive power to ratify treaties and its power to «incorporate» them into domestic law under s 51 (29) of the Constitution.

Under Canada's federal system, the administration of justice is an area of shared jurisdiction between the federal government and the provinces and territories.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), each court of summary jurisdiction of each State is invested with federal jurisdiction, and jurisdiction is conferred on each court of summary jurisdiction of each Territory, with respect to matters arising under this Part.

(1) Subject to this section, if, under the law of a participating State or a participating Territory, a court is empowered (whether generally or in particular cases) to make a community service order in respect of a person convicted of an offence against the law of the State or Territory, a court exercising jurisdiction in the State or Territory may, under paragraph 70NFB (2)(a) make a community service order.

(2) Subject to subsections (5) and (7), each court of summary jurisdiction of each State is invested with federal jurisdiction, and jurisdiction is conferred on each court of summary jurisdiction of each Territory, in relation to matters arising under this Act.

(1) An appeal lies from a decree of a court of summary jurisdiction of a State or Territory exercising jurisdiction under this Act to the Family Court or to the Supreme Court of that State or Territory.

(b) an entry in a register of parentage information kept under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State, Territory or prescribed overseas jurisdiction.

(i) made before the commencement of this Act in the exercise of jurisdiction invested or conferred by the repealed Act, or in a matrimonial cause or proceedings for a separation order instituted under the law of that State or Territory, being a decree that was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act; or

(2) Subject to this Part, a matrimonial cause (other than proceedings of a kind referred to in subparagraph (a)(ii) or paragraph (b) of the definition of matrimonial cause in subsection 4 (1)-RRB- may be instituted under this Act in a Court of summary jurisdiction of a State or Territory.

(3) Subject to section 69K, jurisdiction is conferred on the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in relation to matters arising under this Part.

(7AA) A court of summary jurisdiction in a State or Territory shall not hear or determine proceedings under this Act instituted in or transferred to that court otherwise than in accordance with any Proclamation in force under subsection (7).

(1) The regulations may provide that, from a date specified in the regulations (not being a date before the regulations are registered under the Legislation Act 2003), the jurisdiction of the Family Court under this Act in relation to all proceedings, or a specified class of proceedings, must not be exercised in a specified State or Territory, or in 2 or more specified States and Territories.

(8) This section does not apply in relation to proceedings under Part VII or in relation to jurisdiction conferred on a federal court or a court of a Territory, or invested in a court of a State, by regulations made for the purposes of section 111C.

If a person's name is entered as a parent of a child in a register of births or parentage information kept under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State, Territory or prescribed overseas jurisdiction, the person is presumed to be a parent of the child.

(6) Subject to this Part and to section 111AA, each court of summary jurisdiction of each State is invested with federal jurisdiction, and jurisdiction is conferred on each court of summary jurisdiction of each Territory, with respect to matters arising under this Act in respect of which:

(2) Subject to subsection (5) and section 69K, jurisdiction is conferred on each court of summary jurisdiction of each Territory in relation to matters arising under this Part (other than proceedings for leave under section 60G).

(8) Jurisdiction with respect to a matter arising under this Act in respect of which a matrimonial cause is instituted under this Act is not conferred on a court of a Territory unless at least one of the parties to the proceedings is, at the date of the institution of the proceedings or the date of the transfer of the proceedings to the court of the Territory, ordinarily resident in the Territory.

deliver compensation to members of the Stolen Generations in Commonwealth jurisdictions (Northern Territory, ACT and Jervis Bay), including, ex gratia payments of $ 75,000 to living Stolen Generations survivors and one - off payments of $ 7,000 under a Funeral Assistance Fund