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Article 89
 

The Constitutional Court of Georgia on the basis of a constitutional claim or a submission of the President of Georgia, the Government, not less than one fifth of the members of the Parliament, a court, the higher representative bodies - representative organs of the self-government - the City Council (Sakrebulo), the High Council of Justice of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia and the Autonomous Republic of Ajara, the Public Defender or a citizen in accordance with a procedure established by the Organic Law shall:


a. adjudicate upon the constitutionality of a Constitutional Agreement, law, normative acts of the President and the Government, the normative acts of the higher state bodies of the Autonomous Republic Abkhazia and the Autonomous Republic of Ajara (changes are added by the Constitutional Laws of Georgia of 20 April 2000 and 30 March 2001);


b. consider dispute on competence between state bodies;


c. consider constitutionality of formation and activity of political associations of citizens;


d. consider dispute on constitutionality of referenda and elections;


e. consider constitutionality of international treaties and agreements;


f. consider on the basis of a constitutional claim of a citizen constitutionality of normative acts in terms of the issues of Chapter Two of the Constitution;


f.1 consider dispute on violation of the Constitutional Law of Georgia on the Status of the Autonomous Republic of Ajara.


f.2 . On the basis of the action brought by representative bodies of the self-government - the City Council (Sakrebulo), the question of constitutionality of normative acts is discussed in relation to the regulations defined by Chapter 7¹ of the Constitution.


f.3 On the basis of submission made by the High Council of Justice the question of compatibility of normative acts with Articles 82, 84, 86, 86¹, 87 and 90 of the Constitution shall be discussed.


g. exercise other powers determined by the Constitution and the Organic Law of Georgia.


2. The judgment of the Constitutional Court shall be final. A normative act or a part thereof recognised as unconstitutional shall cease to have legal effect from the moment of the promulgation of the respective judgment of the Constitutional Court.