A draft of any National Assembly bill of tribal concern must be referred to the House of Chiefs for advisory opinion.

The mandatory nature of such resolutions was upheld by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in its advisory opinion on Namibia.

The Court may give an advisory opinion on any legal question at the request of whatever body may be authorized by or in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to make such a request.

It might also give an advisory opinion on any dispute or question referred to it by the Council or the Assembly.

The workload the following year was reduced, containing two judgments and one advisory opinion ; the Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions Case, the Interpretation of the Treaty of Neuilly Case ( the first case of the Court's Chamber of Summary Procedure ) and the Monastery of Saint-Naoum Question.

The court heard two cases, providing one judgment and one advisory opinion ; a second question on German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia, this time a judgment rather than an advisory opinion, and an advisory opinion on the International Labour Organisation, grouped into the International Labour Organisation Questions.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

The Court also issued " advisory opinions ", which arose from Article 14 of the Covenant creating the Court, which provided " The Court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dispute referred to it by the Council or Assembly ", which Goodrich interprets as indicating that the drafters intended a purely advisory capacity for the Court, not a binding one.

Manley Ottmer Hudson ( who sat as a judge ) said that an advisory opinion " was what it purported to be.

It is not in any sense a judgement ... hence it is not in any way binding on any state ", while Charles de Visscher argued that in certain situations, an advisory opinion could be binding on the League of Nations Council and, under certain circumstances, some states ; M. Politis agreed, saying that the Court's advisory opinions were equivalent to a binding judgment.

The court did retain the discretion to avoid giving an advisory opinion, and did use this on occasion.

On 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice gave the following advisory opinion: " The declaration of independence of Kosovo adopted on 17 February 2008 did not violate international law.

Thus the Court's ruling would be nothing more than an advisory opinion ; therefore, the court dismissed the suit for failing to present a " case or controversy.

On February 1, 2011, the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ( ITLOS ) issued an advisory opinion concerning the legal responsibilities and obligations of States Parties to the Convention with respect to the sponsorship of activities in the Area in accordance with Part XI of the Convention and the 1994 Agreement.

A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the 1961 constitution established a consultative legislative council.

The board was formed on the Museum's inception to hold its collections in trust for the nation without actually owning them themselves, and now fulfil a mainly advisory role.

Also, an advisory committee was formed in 1990 by then-Governor of Colorado Roy Romer to recruit an ownership group.

The original task of COCU was to negotiate a consensus between its nine ( originally four ) member communions ( it also included three " advisory participant " churches.

The Quito Audiencia, which was both a court of justice and an advisory body to the viceroy, consisted of a president and several judges ( oidores ).

IETF, an international non-profit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization that derives its support entirely from its membership and the general public, was founded in 1988 and is guided by a board of directors and a medical advisory council.

In 1996, Glover was running the Ithaca Hours system from his home, and the system had an advisory board and a governing board called the " Barter Potluck ".

The advisory Commission on International Labour Legislation was established by the Peace Conference to draft these proposals.

The advisory and consultative role of the government of Ireland in the government of Northern Ireland granted by the United Kingdom, that had begun with the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, was maintained.

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

Trotsky was one of the first Bolshevik leaders to recognize the problem and he pushed for the formation of a military council of former Russian generals that would function as an advisory body.

Aided by an advisory council, he drew up a new constitution, which was approved overwhelmingly in a December 1962 referendum.

An 11 ( c )( 1 )( B ) agreement does not bind the court ; the prosecutor's recommendation is merely advisory, and the defendant cannot withdraw his plea if the court decides to impose a sentence other than what was stipulated in the agreement.

The Court was given nine cases during 1922 and 1923, however, with judgments called " cases " and advisory opinions called " questions ".

1925 was an exceedingly busy year for the court, which sat for 210 days, with four extraordinary sessions as well as the ordinary session, producing 3 judgments and 4 advisory opinions.

3 of the advisory opinions were on the Competence of the European Commission on the Danube, and the 4th was on the Jurisdiction of Danzig Courts.

As such, the Senate was the King ’ s advisory council as the Council of State.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

The JIC was founded in 1936 as a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, the advisory peacetime defence planning agency.

The bill-tabled by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu and supported by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman-committed Vanuatu to recognising West Papua's independence ; to seeking observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and in the Pacific Islands Forum ; and to " request Nations General Assembly support for the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the process in which the former Netherlands New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia in the 1960s ".

On September 1, 2010, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an advisory on " Informal Value Transfer Systems ".

On 1 September 2010, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an advisory on " informal value transfer systems " referencing United States v. Banki.

During its first year of business the Court issued three advisory opinions, all related to the International Labour Organisation created by the Treaty of Versailles, and collectively grouped into the International Labour Organisation Questions.

The 4 advisory opinions issued by the Court were in the Polish Postal Service in Danzig Question, the Expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarch Question, the Treaty of Lausanne Question and the German Interests in Polish Upper Silesia Question.

Weather radios provide an alarm when a severe weather advisory is issued for the local area, though these are mainly available only in the United States.

In another advisory opinion issued in 1955, the Court further ruled that the General Assembly was not required to follow League of Nations voting procedures in determining questions concerning South-West Africa.

For comparison, a fish consumption advisory was issued at the Florida Everglades after water there was found to contain 1 nanogram per liter.

Sub-committees consisting of members of the Municipal Council act only on an advisory level and according to the procedures and regulations issued by the Council.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a public health advisory about the possible risk of lymph node or skin cancer from use of these products ,< ref >

In 2009 a security flaw in the way that transparent proxies operate was published by Robert Auger, and the Computer Emergency Response Team issued an advisory listing dozens of affected transparent and intercepting proxy servers.

Under the pressure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, on August 6, 1905, Sergei Witte issued a manifesto about the convocation of the Duma, initially thought to be an advisory organ.

The U. S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has issued an advisory indicating the marketing claims made about colloidal silver are scientifically unsupported, the silver content of marketed supplements varies widely, and colloidal silver products can have serious side effects to the consumer, including " argyria ,... neurologic problems ( such as seizures ), kidney damage, stomach distress, headaches, fatigue, and skin irritation.

In April 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) issued an advisory and subsequent black box warning regarding the risks of atypical anti psychotic use among elderly patients with dementia.

On September 1, 2010, FinCEN issued an advisory on " informal value transfer systems " referencing United States v. Banki and Hawala.

Following the declaration of alert level 3 for the volcano, the United States issued an advisory cautioning its nationals from traveling to Mayon.

Other aerospace companies challenged that TRW ’ s Air Force advisory role granted it unfair access to its competitors ’ technology, and in September 1959 the US Congress issued a report recommending that STL be converted to a non-profit organization.

For many years until the early 1980s an intermediate type of tornado advisory known as a Tornado Alert was defined by the National Weather Service and issued by local offices thereof.

The use of this advisory began to decline after 1974 but was still listed on public information materials issued by various media outlets, local NWS offices, & c. for another decade or so.

( a Flood advisory or Flash flood warning is issued in this case ).

Advisory – An advisory is issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, imminent or likely.