The family profited immensely by the sale of Shin Corporation to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund – the law blocking such a sale had been amended under Thaksin's watch.
The EU hasn't officially commented on the referendum, but has clashed with Croatia over some of its other laws, including an extradition law that has prevented its citizens from being handed over to the bloc's other member states, which Croatia had to amend under pressure from Brussels.
Robb committed to amend regulations under the Migration Act to ensure that "the proposed party to the work agreement... must have demonstrated that they have made recent and genuine efforts to recruit Australian workers in the occupation and location covered by the work agreement".
Citizens could also amend the Constitution under the proposal, but the measure would have to be passed in two consecutive statewide elections.
The theory is that this is an efficient way of clearing noncontroversial proposals, but the procedure is also used for other purposes: to slip bills through or to deny members an opportunity to amend them, under the pretense that if a bill is on the suspension calendar it is by definition noncontroversial.
In any case, they drew prison terms that were far longer than those permitted under the amended sentencing guidelines the Legislature approved in 1994.
This time, his supporters were relying on a specious legal manoeuvre: in applications to the courts, they argued that Mr Menem had been elected only once under the amended constitution.This is the argument that has been used by President Alberto Fujimori in Peru, and there it won the blessing of a hand-picked constitutional court.
Harsher penalties for those convicted under the amended law include the removal of a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit ($1,371) and a possible jail term of three years, to be replaced by a mandatory jail term of between three and seven years, said deputy home affairs minister Wan Junaidi Tuaku Jaafar.
Further, the Government pointed out that, even if the election of Scottish peers were entrenched, Parliament could amend the provision under the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty.
In 1968 the university was reorganized under an amended act of the McMaster Act into the Divisions of Arts, Science, and Health Sciences, each with its own Vice-President, while the Divinity College continued under its existing arrangement.
