The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

Jury trials in criminal cases were a protected right in the original United States Constitution and the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments of the US Constitution extend the rights to trial by jury to include the right to jury trial for both criminal and civil matters and a grand jury for serious cases.

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.

Three Constitutional amendments, known as the Reconstruction Amendments, were adopted.

Amendments made to the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in 1964 extended the prevailing wage provisions to cover fringe benefits, while several increases were made to the federal minimum wage.

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.

Historian Rogers Smith noted on the subject “ lawmakers frequently admitted, indeed boasted, that such measures as complex registration rules, literacy and property tests, poll taxes, white primaries, and grandfather clauses were designed to produce an electorate confined to a white race that declared itself supreme ”, notably rejecting the 14th and 15th Amendments to the American Constitution.

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

Amendments that would have lessened the financial impact on the colonies by allowing colonists to pay the tax in their own script were considered to be too little and too late.

" In the event, the Palmer Raids were criticised as unconstitutional by twelve publicly-prominent lawyers, including ( future Supreme Court Justice ) Felix Frankfurter, who published A Report on the Illegal Practices of The United States Department of Justice, documenting systematic violations of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution via Palmer-authorised “ illegal acts ” and “ wanton violence ”.

Amendments proposing reductions to 22 weeks and 20 weeks were defeated by 304 to 233 votes and 332 to 190 votes respectively.

Amendments in the remaining models were confined to new wheels, trims and decals, however, the Calais has taken on a sports-luxury persona as opposed to the discrete luxury character seen in previous models.

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

However, the Amendments were seen by many Turkish Cypriots as threatening constitutional protections against domination by the majority Greek Cypriots.

Amendments were introduced under R. A. 5525.

Amendments to the constitution were provided for by Article 73.

Many provisions of these bills were included in larger pieces of legislation, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2009 and the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, that passed the House of Representatives in the 111th Congress.

Amendments to the Constitution were likewise adopted by legislative act of that body.

Amendments included removing its ability to modify itself or the Human Rights Act 1998 ; most of the other modifications were much more subjectively defined.

* The responsibilities of the Food and Drug Administration were significantly enlarged by the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments ( 1962 ).

Whether the Fifth and / or Fourteenth Amendments were intended to serve this function continues to be a matter of scholarly as well as judicial discussion and dissent.

People with disabilities and families with children were added to the list of protected classes by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988.

Unlike later amendments the First and Second Amendments were not submitted to a referendum because, under the terms of the constitution's Transitory Provisions, during the initial period of 1937 – 1941 constitutional amendments could be effected by a simple act of the Oireachtas.

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.

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.

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 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 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.