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The Parliament refused to approve the Commission's 1996 community's budget on grounds of financial mismanagement, fraud and nepotism.
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The Provisional Government refused to accept the " Power Act " and sent more Russian troops to Finland, where, with the co-operation and support of Finnish conservatives, Parliament was dissolved and new elections announced.
In 2001, the party experienced a further crisis as some Green Members of Parliament refused to back the government's plan of sending military personnel to help with the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
Some of the Rump Parliament were opposed and refused to sit with the Secluded Members.
In 1694, Parliament refused to renew the Licensing Act, ending the Stationers ' monopoly and press restrictions.
In 1926 King advised the Governor General, Lord Byng, to dissolve Parliament and call another election, but Byng refused, the only time in Canadian history that the Governor General has exercised such a power.
During the Chanak Crisis of 1922, King refused to support the British without first consulting Parliament, while the Conservative leader, Arthur Meighen, supported Britain.
The Nationalists, now led by Eddie Fenech Adami, refused to accept the electoral result and also refused to take their seats in parliament for the first years of the legislature, mounting a campaign demanding that Parliament should reflect the democratic will of the people.
On 6 February, the Covenanter Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II as King of Great Britain in succession to his father, but refused to allow him to enter Scotland unless he accepted Presbyterianism throughout the British Isles.
Following the decision by the public prosecutor, Members of Parliament in Sweden requested Bildt to step down, which he has refused to do.
In 1990, when a law submitted by Roger Lallemand and Lucienne Herman-Michielsens, liberalising Belgium's abortion laws, was approved by Parliament, he refused to give Royal Assent to the bill.
The passing of the Hunting Act was also notable in that it was implemented through the use of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 after the House of Lords refused to pass the legislation, despite the Commons passing it by a majority of 356 to 166.
As a consequence neither he nor Charles Bradlaugh, who had also refused to take the oath after being elected to the House of Commons, were allowed to take their seats in Parliament.
In January 1692, the Queen, angered by Marlborough's intrigues in Parliament, the army, and even with Saint-Germain, ordered Anne to dismiss Sarah from her household – Anne refused.
A man in London named John Hampden, who was also a member of Parliament, refused to pay this " new ," interior Ship Money tax, so he was tried for a crime by Charles I and lost with a vote of 7 to 5.
Thus Parliament disallowed religious toleration and voted to disband the New Model Army, but the New Model Army refused the order.
However, opposition parties in Parliament refused to support this move while Toledo campaigned vigorously to have the election annulled.
The result of this was that wealthy landowners refused to pay the loan and the Crown's income fell below Charles's expectations, forcing him to call a fresh Parliament in March 1627.
Charles did not dispute that Parliament as a whole did have some judicial powers, but he maintained that the House of Commons on its own could not try anybody, and so he refused to plead.
Others refused because, as the bill had not passed the House of Lords and did not have Royal Assent, it could not become an Act of Parliament.
In 1919 candidates who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled as a unicameral, revolutionary parliament called " Dáil Éireann ".
Following disputes between Parliament and King Charles I over the execution of the Thirty Years ' War, Parliament refused to grant subsidies to support the war effort, leading to Charles gathering " forced loans " without Parliamentary approval and arbitrarily imprisoning those who refused to pay.
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Parliament is required to approve the appointment before he assumes office.
The Parliament did not approve the plan, however, mainly for reasons of finance.
Churchill informed the Queen that the Dominion prime ministers were unanimously against the marriage, and that Parliament would not approve a marriage that would be unrecognised by the Church of England unless Margaret renounced her rights to the throne.
In the former case it would not legally bind Parliament to approve the said legislation irrelevant of the result of the said referendum, however the latter case, it would be conventionally binding on the President to promulgate the bill into law.
King Leopold III requested the Belgian Government and the Parliament to approve a law delegating his royal powers to his son, Prince Baudouin, who took the constitutional oath before the United Chambers of the Belgian Parliament as Prince Royal on 11 August 1950.
Its major functions are to elect the President of the Republic, to approve the government ( although appointed by the President, the Prime Minister, along with the Cabinet, must retain the confidence of a majority in the Parliament ), and to approve laws and expenditure.
Such reforms would include improving safeguards of rights, as well as patriation of the Constitution, meaning the British Parliament would no longer have to approve constitutional amendments.
To amend or to make a revision of a fundamental law, the Parliament needs to approve the changes twice in two successive terms, with a general election having been held in between.
A Statutory Instrument is used when an Act of Parliament passed after 1947 confers a power to make, confirm or approve delegated legislation on:
The Parliament of Canada then requested the British Parliament to approve the Constitution Act, 1982, which the latter did through passage of the Canada Act 1982.
Parliament may approve or reject these recommendations, but may not amend them.
Under the codecision procedure, both the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers ( representing national Governments ) must approve a text in identical terms in order for a proposal to become law.
Realizing that the Parliament of Paris would never agree to reform, Calonne handpicked an Assembly of Notables in 1787 to approve new taxes.
When Parliament votes to approve the urgent expenditure, the monies are repaid into the Contingencies Fund.
As Parliament is effectively forced to approve actions ex post facto ( after they've happened ), the Treasury's use of the fund is actually scrutinised in detail by the Public Accounts Committee.
The President can also dissolve the Parliament if it refuses to approve the government's budget within sixty days or if it directly votes no confidence in the government.
The Interim Government sustained, did not approve the act and dissolved the Parliament.
Treaties are also put before the European Parliament and while its vote is not binding, it is important ; both the Belgian and Italian Parliaments said they would veto the Nice Treaty if the European Parliament did not approve it.
According to the Danish Constitution, the Danish Parliament may delegate specific parts of the country's sovereignty to international authorities, provided that five-sixths of its members approve of the bill.
The law required Parliament to approve such revisions, normally regarded as a formality, but when the Prayer Book came before the House of Commons Joynson-Hicks argued strongly against its adoption as he felt it strayed far from the Protestant principles of the Church of England.
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