Constitución en Inglés

168 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 Cases brought before the Constitutional Court concerning the matters treated in this title shall be regulated by law in accordance with the following provisions: 1. Any citizen may initiate the popular actions provided for in the preceding article and intervene as challenger or defender of provisions subject to the court’s control in proceedings initiated by others as well as in cases where no public action has occurred. 2. The Inspector General of the Nation shall intervene in all proceedings. 3. Actions to correct formal errors must be brought within one year of the publication of said acts. 4. Ordinarily, the Court shall have sixty days to decide, and the Inspector General of the Nation shall have thirty days to give his/her opinion. 5. In the proceedings referred to in Number 7 of the previous article, the ordinary time-span shall be reduced to a third, and missing deadline shall constitute official misconduct to be sanctioned according to law. Constitutional Court rulings in exercise of jurisdictional oversight bar double jeopardy. No authority may reproduce the substance of a juridical measure that has been declared fundamentally unconstitutional as long as the constitutional provisions that contradict the measure remain in force. ARTICLE 242 ARTICLE 243