Sentences with phrase «precedence over the act»

Loyalty to the state took precedence over acting on religious convictions.

Their reaction can be a refusal to give effect to an act of the IO, following a finding that the act was outside the scope of authority of the IO -LSB-...] or incompatible with another set of norms, be it international norms (such as a jus cogens norm or a human rights norm) or a norm of the domestic legal order that has precedence over the act of the IO (such as the practice of the German constitutional court in the cases involving judgments of The ECJ and the EctHR).»

Not exact matches

In a case concerning an alleged discrimanatory pension scheme in the Czech republic that resulted from the dissolvation of Czechoslovakia, it held that the Court in its judgment in Case C - 399 / 09 Landtová acted ultra vires and subsequently gave Czech national law precedence over EU law.

At paragraph 60, the majority outlines that «The 1972 Act... authorises a dynamic process by which, without further primary legislation (and, in some cases, even without any domestic legislation), EU law not only becomes a source of UK law, but actually takes precedence over all domestic sources of UK law, including statutes» (emphasis added).

1) As the Divorce Act clearly states, child support takes precedence over spousal support.

As Benefits Canada explains, the court held that the federal statute took precedence over the provincial statute, ruling that «the deemed trust that gives priority to pension claims under Newfoundland and Labrador's Pension Benefits Act wasn't effective in a liquidation scenario in a [CCAA] proceeding.»

The Withdrawal Bill will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, which took Britain into the EU, and meant that European law took precedence over laws passed in the UK Parliament.

«Currently, the Mining Act gives the mining interests of government precedence over the property rights of landowners.