Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are " present and voting " and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.

Amendments were also made at this time: section 92A was added, giving the Provinces greater control over non-renewable natural resources.

Amendments were made so that a single judge could reject plainly inadmissible applications, prior to the reforms only a three judges committee could make this final decision.

In response to judges and juries which award high punitive damages verdicts, the Supreme Court of the United States has made several decisions which limit awards of punitive damages through the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Eight years later, Congress replaced that law with the Atomic Energy Act Amendments of 1954, which for the first time made the development of commercial nuclear power possible, and resolved a number of other outstanding problems in implementing the first Atomic Energy Act.

Amendments made in 1884 tightened the provisions that allowed previous immigrants to leave and return, and clarified that the law applied to ethnic Chinese regardless of their country of origin.

Amendments made by the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 gave the Department of the Interior, among other things, the authority to amend repayment contracts and to extend repayment for not more than 40 years.

Amendments made by the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 ( P. L.

Amendments have since been made to the original agreement, based on expert feedback from the field and an industry panel known as the Custodian Support Team.

These provisions made their first appearance in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which were adopted during the Reconstruction period primarily to abolish slavery and protect the rights of the newly emancipated African-Americans.

The United States has made reservations that none of the articles should restrict the right of free speech and association ; that the US government may impose capital punishment on any person other than a pregnant woman, including persons below the age of 18 ; that " cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment " refers to those treatments or punishments prohibited by the Fifth, Eighth and / or Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution ; that Paragraph 1, Article 15 will not apply ; and that, notwithstanding paragraphs 2 ( b ) and 3 of Article 10 and paragraph 4 of Article 14, the US government may treat juveniles as adults, and accept volunteers to the military prior to the age of 18.

Amendments were made to SSSI documentation, notification periods and maintenance of registers ( Legislation. gov. uk, 2010 ).

Amendments to the Constitution are made by the Parliament, the procedure for which is laid out in Article 368.

The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 ( SARA ), made several important changes and additions to CERCLA including increasing the funding of Superfund to $ 8. 5 billion and providing for studies and the use of new technologies.

Amendments were made in 1950, 1967, 1970 and 1973.

Amendments were made by further Warrants in 1952, 1958, 1999 to coincide with the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government and most recently in 2012.

Amendments made it harder to qualify by increasing the time needed to be worked, although seasonal claimants ( who work long hours over short periods ) turned out to gain from the replacement, in 1996, of weeks by hours to qualify.

The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution was the first of a number of amendments that have been made to expressly permit the Irish state to ratify changes to the founding treaties of the European Union ( others have been the Eleventh, Eighteenth and Twenty-sixth Amendments ).

The Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution was one of a number of amendments that have been made to expressly permit the state to ratify changes to the founding treaties of the European Union ( then known as the European Community ) ( others have been the Tenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-sixth Amendments ).

The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution was one of a number of amendments that have been made to expressly permit the state to ratify changes to the founding treaties of the European Union ( others have been the Tenth, Eleventh and Twenty-sixth Amendments ).

The Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution was one of a number of amendments that have been made to expressly permit the state to ratify changes to the founding treaties of the European Union ( others have been the Tenth, Eleventh and Eighteenth Amendments ).

Furthermore, most of the over 64, 000 sterilizations performed in the USA under the aegis of eugenics legislation were not in prison institutions or performed on convicted criminals ; punitive sterilizations made up only negligible amounts of the total operations performed, as most states and prison officials were nervous about their legal status ( which were not affirmed in Buck v. Bell specifically ) as possible violations of the Eighth (" cruel and unusual punishment ") or Fourteenth Amendments (" Due Process " and " Equal Protection Clauses ").

Previously during September the 11th 1996 the Social Security ( Credits and Contributions ) ( Jobseeker's Allowance Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments ) Regulations were created, brought before parliament five days later and subsequently made policy coming into force also on October the 7th.

Stromberg v. California, 283 U. S. 359 ( 1931 ) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled 7 – 2 that a 1919 California statute banning red flags was unconstitutional because it violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

On September 25, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 ( ADAAA ).

* J. Tate London, The " 1991 Amendments " to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Protection for Native Lands ?, 8 Stan.

The first emissions trading market was established in the United States by enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Growing concerns, both environmental and economic, from cites and towns as well as sportsman and other local groups, and senators such as Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, led to passage of extensive legislation, notably the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

* Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007

In the United States, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 ( P. L.

* 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U. S. President Bill Clinton.

The case challenged a portion of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985.

** The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U. S. President Bill Clinton.

** U. S. President Bill Clinton signs the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments.

# The National Defense Act Amendments of 1920

* 1963: Amendments to National Defense Education Act PL 88-210

* 1976: Social Security Act Amendments ( Aid to Day Care Centers ) PL 94-401

* Amendments to the Federal Social Assistance Act ( 1974 ).

* 1974 Amendments to Federal Election Campaign Act provided for first comprehensive system of regulation, including limitations on the size of contributions and expenditures and prohibitions on certain entities from contributing or spending, disclosure, creation of the Federal Election Commission as a regulatory agency, and government funding of presidential campaigns.

Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should not be confused with Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs and activities.

Udall played a key role in the enactment of environmental laws such as the Clear Air, Water Quality and Clean Water Restoration Acts and Amendments, the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, the National Trail System Act of 1968, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968.

The EEOC was established on July 2, 1965 ; its mandate is specified under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 ( ADEA ), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) of 1990, and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.

Public concern that NIH research become the basis for improved care and greater access to care moved DHEW to convene the DeBakey Commission, whose 1964 Report Stewart used as the basis for PHS ’ s Regional Medical Program ( the Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments of 1965 ).

It applies to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.