According to " National Assembly Duties Act ," the National Assembly could amend the constitution with a two-thirds majority, with at least three-quarters membership present.

During 1842 in response to the blue book published by Villiers ' 1840 Committee on Import Duties, Peel gave the concession of modifying the sliding scale by reducing the maximum duty to 20 shillings when the price decreased to 51 shillings or less.

Any person entering the UK from outside the EU who fails to declare any thing or to produce any baggage or thing as required ( unless it they are entitled to exemption from duty and tax by virtue of any order under section 13 of the Customs and Excise Duties ( General Reliefs ) Act 1979 ) commits an offence.

Originally ten in number, the Fundamental Duties were increased to eleven by the 86th Amendment in 2002, which added a duty on every parent or guardian to ensure that their child or ward was provided opportunities for education between the ages of six and fourteen years.

At the time, officers of the General Duties ( GD ) Branch ( mainly pilots on a ground tour or who for medical reasons could no longer fly ) performed the duty of Squadron Intelligence Officer, or aircrew on ground tours in the Air Ministry Intelligence Department.

The Paisley Beer Duties Act 1753 provided for " laying a duty of two pennies Scots, or one sixth part of a penny Sterling, on every Scots Pint of Ale and Beer which shall be brewed for sale, brought into, tapped or sold within the Town of Paisley and Liberties thereof, in the County of Renfrew, for improving the Navigation of the River Cart, and for other Purposes ".

The subjects studied were Police Duties, Irish, and Physical Studies, consisting of Physical Training, Drill, Swimming, and First Aid.

The Fundamental Duties are defined as the moral obligations of all citizens to help promote a spirit of patriotism and to uphold the unity of India.

Similarly, the Supreme Court has used the Fundamental Duties to uphold the Constitutional validity of statutes which seeks to promote the objects laid out in the Fundamental Duties.

The Constitution of People's Republic of China ( which applies only to mainland China, not to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan ), especially its Fundamental Rights and Duties of Citizens, claims to protect many civil liberties, although in practice dissidents may find themselves without the protection of the rule of law.

Royal Navy Stores Duties Instructions, article 447, dated 26 February 1914, specified that flags condemned from further service use were to be torn up into small pieces and disposed of as rags ( ADM 1 / 8369 / 56 ), not to be used for decoration or sold.

However, these cases were settled by the Tokyo Round Code on Subsidies and Countervailing Duties ( predecessor to today's SCM ), and the GATT Council decided in 1981 to adopt the panel reports subject to the understanding that the terms of the settlement would apply.

* Duties of all sheriffs: marital matters ( such as general registration of marital status and performing civil marriages ), statutory matters, inheritance matters and more.

Duties include filing originating motions to bring cases before the Court " in the name of the law " and bringing cases before the French Court of Justice ( Cour de justice de la République ), which tries government officials for crimes committed while in office.

It was responsible for the collection of Value added tax ( VAT ), Customs Duties, Excise Duties, and other indirect taxes such as Air Passenger Duty, Climate Change Levy, Insurance Premium Tax, Landfill Tax and Aggregates Levy.

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* Devoirs de vérité ( Duties of truth ), interviews with Edwy Plenel, éd.

* ( Election Assistance Commission: Duties and Responsibilities ), as detailed in HAVA

Duties include echoing ( calling out ) " rolls " and " cuts ", locking up ( making sure nothing interferes with a take ), wrangling talent and background, facilitating communication between departments, distributing paperwork and radios, and related tasks as mandated by the ADs.

Chovot HaLevavot or Ḥovot HaLebabot, ( Hebrew:, English: Duties of the Heart ), is the primary work of the Jewish philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda, full name Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda.

But as regards the question of the attributes which occupy the Jewish and Muslim theologians so much, Bahya, in his work on ethics, " Hovot ha-Levavot ," written in Arabic under the title of " Kitab al-Hidayat fi faraidh al Kulub " ( The Duties of the Heart ), is of the same opinion as the Motazilites, that the attributes by which one attempts to describe God should be taken in a negative sense, as excluding the opposite attributes.

* Atkins, E. M .; Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Griffin, M. T., Cicero: On Duties ( Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought ), Cambridge University Press ( February 21, 1991 ).

The American states also adopted a series of diplomatic and political rules, which were not always respected or fulfilled, governing relations between the countries, like the following ones: arbitration of disputes, peaceful resolution of conflicts, military non-intervention, equality among the member states of each organism and in their mutual relations, decisions by means of resolutions approved by the majority, the recognition of diplomatic asylum, the Private International Law Code ( Bustamante Code ), the inter-American system of human rights ( American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man ; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, along with its protocols and associate conventions ; and the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the Organization of American States ).

Besides the books above mentioned, Emerson Tennent wrote Belgium in 1840 ( 1841 ), and Wine: its Duties and Taxation ( 1855 ), The Wild Elephant and The Method Of Capturing It in Ceylon ( 1867 ) Sketches Of The Natural History Of Ceylon ( 1868 ) and was a contributor to magazines and a frequent correspondent of Notes and Queries.

Following the end of WW2, the Branch was split up into Administrative and Special Duties Branch ( Photography ) and Administrative and Special Duties Branch ( Signals ), with no dedicated Air Intelligence specialisation.

Special Duties was created in October 1977 by schoolfellows Steve Green ( Aka Arrogant ), Steve Norris ( Aka Duty ) and Nigel Baker.

Fargnoli's books of poetry include Necessary Light ( Utah State University Press, 1999 ), winner of the May Swenson Book Award ; Lives of Others ( Oyster River Press, 2001 ); Small Songs of Pain ( Pecan Grove Press, 2003 ); Duties of the Spirit ( Tupelo Press, 2005 ) which won the Jane Kenyon Literary Award for Outstanding Poetry by a New Hampshire poet, and most recently, Then, Something, ( also from Tupelo Press, 2009 ) which won the 2009 Foreword Review Best of the Year Silver Award in Poetry, and was an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry.

In Cabinet, Herdman served as Attorney-General ( 10 July 1912 – 4 February 1918 ), Minister of Justice ( 10 July 1912 – 12 August 1915 ), and Minister of Stamp Duties ( 13 July 1912 – 12 August 1915 ).

: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States ; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States ;

: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

* Duties ( taxes on importation, levied at customs )

The main taxes are Excise Duties ; Value Added Tax ; Income Tax ; Corporation Tax ; and Capital Gains Tax.

:: Article 8 of the Convention on Rights and Duties of States ;

:: Article I, Third, of the Convention concerning the Duties and Rights of States in the Event of Civil Strife.

The Constitution refers to these officials when it authorizes the President, in Article II, section 2, to " require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices.

Article 25 of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man provides in part that " o person may be deprived of his liberty except in the cases and according to the procedures established by pre-existing law.

Elevated as a Permanent Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on December 10, 1989, Member of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of the International Law Association ; participated in Symposium under the Auspices of International Law Association held at Geneva on 9th & 10 June, 1995, on the subject or “ ONGOING PROLIFERATION CHALLENGES: Legal Aspects ”; attended Seminar on “ The Rights and Duties of States ” that have signed or ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention, on 2 July, 1997, at Hague, Netherlands ; contributed an Article published in Volume III of Arms Control and Disarmament Law titled “ Future Legal Restraints on Arms Proliferation ” published by the United Nations and launched at United Nations Headquarters in November, 1996 ; Member of the Executive Council of Allama Iqbal Open University from September, 1996 to December, 1997 ; Chairman, Pakistan Zakat Council from August, 1991 to July, 1994.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an organ of the OAS, reported in 1997: “ It should also be noted that the major criterion for preparing this report has been the lack of free elections in accordance with internationally accepted standards, thereby violating the right to political participation set forth in Article XX of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, which states textually that: Every person having legal capacity is entitled to participate in the government of his country, directly or through his representatives, and to take part in popular elections, which shall be by secret ballot, and shall be honest, periodic and free .”

In a letter to President George Washington, replying to the president's request for such an opinion, then-Chief Justice John Jay replied that it would violate the separation of powers for the Supreme Court to provide such an opinion, noting that the president could rely on advice from anyone within the executive branch under Article Two of the United States Constitution which expressly permits the President of the United States to " require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices.

No. 419 ( Special Duties ) Flight was formed at RAF North Weald on 21 August 1940, moving to RAF Stradishall where it was disbanded to form No. 1419 ( Special Duties ) Flight on 1 March 1941, continuing to fly Westland Lysander STOL aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bombers and Martin Maryland reconnaissance bombers on Special Operations Executive clandestine operations.

In 1992 1 KINGS moved to west London to serve as a Public Duties Battalion.