Traduction de «Suivant l'ordre légal des successions » (Français → Anglais) :

5. The service estate of a deceased member shall be subject to service debts, which are a first charge or lien against the said estate, and shall be payable by the Director of Estates as preferential charges to the exclusion of all other debts and liabilities, in the following order:

– Madam President, the oral amendment I want to propose is the following: ‘The spouses may agree to designate the law applicable to divorce and legal separation provided that such law is in conformity with the fundamental rights defined in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the principle of public policy’.

On the institutional issues, the Council discussed the qualified majority (QMV) threshold in the Council after 1 January 2005, the number of MEPs in the 2004-2009 European Parliament and their allocation between Member States, the order of Presidencies after enlargement and the transitional arrangements in 2004 for the QMV threshold and the total number and allocation of MEPs.

The Convention also provides for the exclusion of the following: the status or legal capacity of natural persons; the law governing family economic matters (wills, successions, marriage settlements, contracts covering maintenance responsibility); obligations arising from negotiable instruments (bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes); the law governing companies, associations and other legal entities; arbitration agreements and agreements on the choice of court; trusts; evidence and procedure. [8]

Subclause 34(1) requires the CSC to refer the case of offenders serving two years or more to the NPB for detention review, and provide the relevant information, if it reasonably believes that one of three situations exists: the offender committed a Schedule I offence that caused death or serious harm to another person, and is likely to commit a similar offence before expiry of the full sentence; the offender committed a Schedule I offence that was a sexual offence involving a child, and is likely to commit a similar offence or (what is new) an offence causing death or serious harm to another person before expiry of the full sentence; o ...[+++]r the offender committed a Schedule II drug offence and is likely to commit a similar offence before expiry of the full sentence.

While the Throne was passed to the heir next in the line of succession – Edward’s brother Albert (later George VI) – an Act of the U.K. Parliament was required to trigger a demise of the Crown, as the monarch cannot unilaterally abdicate under British law, and to exclude Edward VIII’s descendants, if any, from the succession to the Throne as they would have otherwise been included in accordance with the Act of Settlement, 1701, as descendants of Princess Sophia.