Unfortunately, any change to the process would
require unanimous consent.
It may well
require the unanimous consent of the provinces, an unlikely prospect.
In the Senate, consideration of legislation often
requires unanimous consent.
The UN negotiating process
requires unanimous consent to reach decisions.
Hence, the very purpose of the procedure laid down in Article 50 — allowing a withdrawal agreement to be concluded without
requiring the unanimous consent of all the Member States — would be defeated.
... abolition of the Senate
requires the unanimous consent of the Senate, the House of Commons, and the legislative assemblies of all Canadian provinces.
The Constitution Act, 1982 requires changes to the Supreme Court and its composition to be subject to the constitutional amending procedures —
requiring the unanimous consent of Parliament and the provincial legislatures.
Among other things, it declared that an abolition of the Court would
require a unanimous consent amendment procedure, which would need the consent of Parliament and all the provinces.
But even that legislation is facing a hurdle: Mr. McConnell can not bring it up quickly for a vote because Senate rules
require unanimous consent to do so, and at least one senator, Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, has objected.
To tolerate Byzantine failure, Stellar Consensus Protocol is designed not to
require unanimous consent from the full set of nodes for the system to reach agreement.
Not exact matches
The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement will provide that the
unanimous consent of all members holding voting units will be
required to voluntarily dissolve SSE Holdings.
And had a Democrat been there to oppose the «
unanimous consent» then there would have been a quorum sot the «
unanimous consent» vote would not have been
required.
By
unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee's standing rules, which normally
require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.
Vanda believes that the proposed amendments
requiring unanimous Board
consent to approve certain transactions would, in the Company's opinion, severely restrict the ability of the Company and its Board of Directors to conduct business.
If a corporation has a
Unanimous Shareholder Agreement, which is usually recommend for corporations that have multiple shareholders, the agreement can add additional decisions that
require shareholder
consent, or the increase the amount of
consent that is
required over and above what is
required by law.
Constitutional Law: Senate Reform Senate Reference (Order in Council P.C. 2013 - 70, Feb. 1, 2013)(35203) Apr. 25, 2014 Parliament can not unilaterally achieve most of the proposed changes to the Senate,
requiring the
consent of at least seven provinces representing, in the aggregate, at least half of the population of all the provinces; abolition
requires consent of all of the provinces and can only be done with
unanimous federal - provincial consensus.
The Strata Property Act used to
require the
consent of all of the owners to terminate a strata corporation (although the court could allow termination with less than
unanimous consent in some circumstances).
The Strata Property Act
requires a
unanimous vote to terminate a strata, which effectively
requires that all owners
consent....
Although the Senate might, as prof. Macfarlane suggests, be protected from abolition by its role in the process of constitutional amendment itself, which can not be changed without
unanimous consent, the Court might even base its ruling on the broader ground that any fundamental alterations to the nature of the Canadian constitution
require the
consent of all the provinces.
Finally, regarding the abolition of the Senate, the Supreme Court will find that
unanimous provincial
consent is
required.