Sentences with phrase «ruled the amendment inadmissible»

Lords clerks had ruled the amendment inadmissible on the grounds of its scope.

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This difficulty is compounded by the fact that traditional laws and customs are transmitted orally from generation to generation, so evidence of these may be restricted or inadmissible under the hearsay rule.137 This is an issue that has been identified by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its Review of the Uniform Evidence Act 1995.138 The Commission proposes that the uniform Evidence Acts should be amended to provide an exception to the hearsay and opinion evidence rules for evidence relevant to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs.139 The Commission also observed that there are strong arguments that the NTA should be amended as the relevant provision does not provide sufficient guidance on or certainty on the admissibility of evidence in native title proceedings.140 However, legislative amendment to the NTA falls outside the terms of reference of this review.