At the time of Cannon's election the Speaker of the House concurrently held the chair of the Rules Committee, which determined under what rules and restrictions bills could be debated, amended, and voted on, and in some cases whether they would be allowed on the floor at all.

Names adopted by the IAU must follow various rules and conventions established and amended through the years by the Union.

The Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the obligation to meet annually and agreed to meet as the occasion required.

Since the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) amended rules to allow frequency hopping spread spectrum systems in the unregulated 2. 4 GHz band, many consumer devices in that band have employed various spread-spectrum modes.

In 2008 the rules were amended to allow more tyres per race weekend — 18 fronts and 22 rears for a total of 40 tyres.

Under the current rules for the amendment of the Treaties, the Treaties can only be amended by a new Treaty, which must be ratified by each of the Member States to enter into force.

The rules were amended once more in 1989 permitting the addition of a third valve.

After that season, the rules for awarding the Calder were amended so that players could only be eligible if they were 26 years old or younger by September 15 of their rookie season.

As the fundamental document constituting a state, a constitution cannot normally be modified or amended by the state's normal legislative procedures ; instead a constituent assembly, the rules for which are normally laid down in the constitution, must be set up.

In 2011, days after the conclusion of the 2011 Olympia Weekend, Chairman of the IFBB Professional League Jim Manion amended the qualifying rules as follows:

In 1978 racing rules in New Zealand were amended to permit female jockeys.

However, a shrewd German player can " game " the USAT table and keep the USA neutral by not declaring war on too many minor countries, taking only limited offensives or even hoarding her U-boats for a sudden, devastating assault on Britain's economy ( the latter loophole came to light after publication, and the rules were later amended to require Germany to make at least limited use of any U-boats she builds ).

The higher board also elections for its membership and amended its internal by-laws and rules, especially those that give the party's chairman vast authorities in an aim to trim the chairman's political powers, all of which Gumaa has agreed to support.

In response to the new rules the fraternity leadership amended the constitution of the national fraternity to remove all references to race or religion.

In practice this has not proved achievable and has led to an ongoing battle between governments amending legislation and tax advisors ' finding new scope for tax avoidance in the amended rules.

The rules of cricket were shortly thereafter amended, stating that the blade of a bat must be made solely of wood.

Scottish Premier League ( SPL ) rules prevent clubs from having standing sections, but these could be amended by a two-thirds majority vote of the SPL clubs.

In March 2000, the U. S. FAA amended operating rules to require that all U. S. registered turbine-powered airplanes with six or more passenger seats ( exclusive of pilot and copilot seating ) be equipped with an FAA-approved TAWS.

The Supreme Court had rejected the entire patent application on the basis of these claims, but Canadian patent law allowed the amended claims to grant under pre-GATT rules and the patent remains valid until 2020.

However, the legislation was subsequently amended to instead impose an excise tax upon an employer whose health plan fails to satisfy the applicable rules.

Since 1997, the UK's Tax Law Rewrite Project has been modernising the UK's tax legislation, starting with income tax, while the legislation imposing corporation tax has itself been amended ; the rules governing income tax and corporation tax have thus diverged.

In March 2010, the NFL amended its rules for postseason overtime after a vote by the team owners, with the rule being extended into the regular season in March 2012.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, amended the rules.

On July 31, 1980, Conference rules were amended to make the Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee an elected position, a change which brought the rules into conformity with what had become custom.

Following further research by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ( ACS ) in the 1970s and 1980s, an " amended " career record was published which reduced Grace's total of centuries to 124.

Administrative divisions were amended by the Act of 28 Pluviôse of Year 8, which created four districts ( reduced to three by Premier Raymond Poincaré in 1926 ) and brought the number of cantons from 45 to 31.

The founding Letters Patent were amended by succeeding monarchs on a number of occasions, such as by James I ( 1613 ) and most notably by Charles I ( who established the Board-then the Provost and seven senior Fellows-and reduced the panel of Visitors in size ) and supplemented as late as the reign of Queen Victoria ( and later still amended by the Oireachtas in 2000 ).

In 2009 the Archives Act was amended to reduce closed period from 30 to 20 years, with Cabinet notebooks reduced from 50 to 30 years.

At any time Westminster could amend the Scotland Act, changing the powers of the Scottish Parliament ; it has previously amended the Act to maintain the number of MSPs, which would otherwise have been reduced in line with the reduction of Scottish MPs in the 2005 UK general election.

Although 26 seats were projected for the following election had they run in 2001, instead Shas was reduced to 11 seats in the 2003 election because the two-ballot system was amended.

In January and May 2004, changes were made to Canada's electoral laws which significantly reduced the fund raising abilities of the Marijuana Party ; specifically, the elections law was amended so that most of the Marijuana Party's political contribution tax credit scheme was criminalized.

Hoagland has proposed a form of physics he calls " hyperdimensional physics " which, supported by the work of pseudoscientific overunity claimant Thomas E. Bearden, he claims to represent the full implementation of James Clerk Maxwell's original 20 quaternion equations, instead of the reduced Maxwell's equations as amended by Oliver Heaviside commonly taught today.

Of those, about 1 / 3 are revoked, 1 / 3 are maintained in an amended form, which generally means " reduced in scope ", and 1 / 3 are maintained as granted, that is, the opposition is rejected.

They differed little from the prototype ; the bogie wheel diameter had been reduced by two inches from to and the valve setting amended to give an increased travel of.

Some states have amended their statutes to reduce the seven-year period to five consecutive years missing, and some, such as Minnesota and Georgia, have reduced the period to four years.

The alleged CWA violations, included in an amended complaint filed in March 2009, are for the discharge of tons of chlorine, a hazardous substance, from a derailed train tank car and thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from ruptured locomotive engine fuel tanks.

The engine was a 2. 5-litre turbo exchanger amended by CBH, which had an output of 150 hp.

In order to assist the States in maintaining basic vocational rehabilitation services, Section 2 of the amended Act provides that allotments to States for support of such services be based on ( 1 ) need, as measured by a State's population, and ( 2 ) fiscal capacity, as measured by its per capita income.

Adelchis regarded himself as the true successor of the Lombard kings and in that capacity he amended the Edictum Rothari, the last Lombard ruler to do so.

The City of Ottawa amended its by-laws in December 2004 and in 2005, the venue was allowed to increase its seating capacity to 19, 153 and total attendance to 20, 500 when including standing room.

Shotguns ( Section 2 Firearms under the 1968 Act as amended ) are defined in UK law as smoothbore firearms with barrels not shorter than 24 inches ( 60 cm ) and a bore not larger than 2 inches ( 5 cm ) in diameter, no revolving cylinder, and either no magazine or a non-detachable magazine that is not capable of holding more than two cartridges, plus one in the chamber ; shotguns with higher capacity require a firearm certificate.

The bill amended the Crimes ( Foreign Incursions and Recruitment ) Act to make it an offence for a person to commit hostile activities while serving in any capacity in or with the armed forces of a foreign state.

In August 2006, an agreement was reached to build sitting room for 20, 000 ( later amended to 23, 000 ) and using the city stadium for games exceeding that capacity.

The rear valance is amended ( Sedan only ) and the capacity of the petrol tank is increased from 50 to 55 liters ( sedan ).