RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RECOGNIZES AS INVALID SOME PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 11 OF RA LAW
RA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RECOGNIZES AS INVALID SOME PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 11 OF RA LAW ON SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN. By its decision of October 4, 2006, the RA Constitutional Court (CC) recognized as invalid the provisions of Article 11 Part 2 of the RA Law on Social Security Cards. Under the decision of the Constitutional Court, these provisions were recognized as contradicting to the RA Constitution's Article 3, Article 6 Parts 1 and 2, Articles 42 and 43, and Article 48 Point 12 in terms of hindering the exercise of rights stipulated in Article 31, Article 32 Part 2, and Article 37 of the RA Constitution. Under the CC decision, other normative acts and their respective provisions, which
secured the implementation of the provisions recognized as invalid based on the requirements of Article 68 Part 11 of the RA Law on Constitutional Court, lose their legal force from the moment of the CC decision's taking effect. In accordance with Article 69 Part 11 and Article 68 Part 12 of the RA Law on
Constitutional Court, the indicated decision applies to the legal relations preceeding its taking effect.
It is noteworthy that under the provisions of Article 11 Part 2 of the RA Law on Social Security Cards, "some categories of citizens are deprived of the opportunity to exercise certain fundamental rights recognized as unrestricted by the RA Constitution."
To recap, this is the first case to have been taken by the Constitutional Court for examination based on personal applications of citizens.
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