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Section 35.1 commits the governments of Canada and the provinces "to the principle that, before any amendment is made [to subsection 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, section 25 of the Charter or sections 35 or 35.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982]" that the Prime Minister will convene a conference of first ministers (i.e. provincial premiers ...
The section in the Charter that most directly relates to Aboriginal people is section 25. [10] It merely states that Charter rights do not diminish Aboriginal rights; it is therefore not as important as section 35. [11] The Charter forms Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982 while section 35 is placed in Part II. This placement in the ...
While ordinarily, section 25 could have been amended with the standard 7/50 amending formula, this change was also carried out with agreement of aboriginal leaders. At the same time, the Constitution Act, 1982 was amended to add section 35.1.
s. 90S.1 of Constitution Act, 1867 and s. 3.1 of the Saskatchewan Act: Added Section 90S.1 to the Constitution Act, 1867, and Section 3.1 to the Saskatchewan Act, which provide that Saskatchewan has autonomy with respect to all of the matters falling under its exclusive legislative jurisdiction. s. 45: Parliament of Saskatchewan
A children's rights bill, the Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2007, was introduced by the Fianna Fáil–PD government. The bill sought to replace section 5 of Article 42 with a new Article 42A, which had five sections; the first four broadly matched the amendment eventually enacted in 2015, while the fifth was: [11]
This section provided that if the Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Act were enacted, Article 46.5 would be omitted from every official text of the constitution, and the two new Articles 40.3.4° and 40.3.5° detailed above would be inserted. The Act would have to be in the form prescribed in the Schedule to the Amendment Bill.
It inserted a new sub-section in section 3 of Article 40. The resulting Article 40.3.3° read: The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
The Constitution of Ireland adopted in 1937 included a ban on divorce. An attempt by the Fine Gael–Labour Party government in 1986 to amend this provision was rejected in a referendum by 63.5% to 36.5%. In 1989, the Dail passed the Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act, which allowed Irish courts to recognize legal separation.