Sentences with phrase «binding referendum on»

Pechefsky, Zuckerman, Heyer, Lander, Reilly and Skaller support a binding referendum on term limits.

Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond have signed an historic agreement enabling Scotland to hold a legally - binding referendum on independence.

Alongside the next general election there should be a binding referendum on whether to change to a new more proportional electoral system.

However the news today that the Cabinet is in talks about allowing a binding referendum on Scottish independence could completely change that.

The Scottish Parliament does, though, clearly lack the power to hold a binding referendum on independence: at present, this requires the agreement of Westminster.

In summary, my proposal is that following a «no» vote the Scotland Act be amended to empower the Scottish Parliament to hold a binding referendum on independence, but only if 30 years have elapsed since the last referendum or if two - thirds of all MSPs vote for such a referendum.

The localism Bill contains binding referendums on subjects such as whether to introduce mayors, the neighbourhood plans that I mentioned earlier and excessive increases in council tax.

Not exact matches

But the Park District, which counted on gaining voter support to finance a recreation center at the Commons, has found itself in a financial bind since the proposal was rejected in an April referendum.

Although the Park Board is not formally bound by the results of the March 21 advisory referendum, the 6,939 to 5,747 vote opposing construction of the outdoor facility on Park District property near Belmont Road and Grant Street gave members pause.

If we had the new constitution, actually the nation could stop a dangerous bill like this [article 65 gives the right for 10 % of the population to hold a binding national referendum on a law passed by the parliament].

A cross-party attempt to thwart the referendum result on the grounds that it is not binding on parliament is unlikely to gain much traction.

Were this to happen independence would be bound to follow sooner or later, on the grounds that the SNP would demand — and win - another referendum.

An academic who is professor of government at Hull University, the Tory peer wrote on his blog a few months after the Leave vote: «We have had a referendum that was not legally binding and without any threshold (or turnout) requirement.

Unlike the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, which indicated that legislation would incorporate the result of a referendum on whether to adopt the alternative voting system, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 did not make the result legallreferendum on whether to adopt the alternative voting system, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 did not make the result legallReferendum Act 2015 did not make the result legally binding.

Is STARE DECISIS (precedent) still part of the law in Ontario?The herein issue was dealt with in 2001, by the SCC, in a finding that the Charter does not apply to PRIVATE entities (TWU) and the Charter remains unchanged!The LSUC and lower Courts are bound by this precedent!Furthermore, the LSUC should not have proceeded herein, without specific authorization from a general Referendum and, at least for the sake of appearances, ON THIS ISSUE, the Bench, should have all been from out of Province, having absolutely no connection to the LSUC, as former Members, Benchers, etc..

The court approved the concession on the grounds that the principles of parliamentary sovereignty dictated that a referendum is always advisory unless there is very clear language to make it binding, that a parliamentary briefing paper available to parliamentarians said that the EU referendum was only intended to be advisory, and that a vote to leave would entail many outstanding questions as to how to implement the decision (see paras 105 — 8 of the judgment).