The court rejected the claimant authorities» submission that the secretary of
state acted ultra vires since Underhill J was satisfied that she had the requisite power to act as she did.
Not exact matches
In 2013, a couple of months after these decisions were issued, the German Federal Constitutional Court took the opportunity in a fundamental rights case to mention the Fransson judgment to openly warn legal operators (the CJEU included) that the CJEU's doctrine «must not be read in a way that would view it as an apparent
ultra vires
act or as if it endangered the protection and enforcement of the fundamental rights in the Member
States» (Judgment of the First Senate of 24 April 2013 — 1 BvR 1215/07 — para. 91).
It considers OMTs
ultra vires for two reasons, first because the ECB thereby
acts outside its monetary mandate, and second because OMTs infring the prohibition on monetary budget funding
stated in Article 123 (1) TFEU.
The High Court declined to
state expressly that a PSPO that was discriminatory, or violated a provision of the Equality
Act, must also be
ultra vires.
Taking the pro-integrative notion of the EU («ever close union»), protection of EU citizens rights, the principle of loyal cooperation etc., you think the
state will
act ultra vires if it changes its mind?
To return to prof. Peters» example, the rules that divide power between federal and
state or provincial legislatures impose duties on legislators not to
act in certain ways (i.e. not to legislate
ultra vires).
In R (Reilly) v Secretary of
State for Work and Pensions [2013] UKSC 68 the court confirmed that regulations governing a skills scheme for people on jobseekers allowance were
ultra vires the Jobseekers
Act 1995 because, among other things, they were imprecise.