Example sentences of "not bind by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance .
2 Mercury Communications Ltd and the UK 's cable television companies are not bound by the legislation , Article 29 of the Utilities Directive , and British Telecom feels that it should be allowed the same freedom .
3 By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with .
4 After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention .
5 Is he aware that , by persisting in the claim that he was not bound by the order of the court , he is compounding his offence ?
6 ( France had announced on June 3 that it would sign the NPT — see p. 38314 — leaving China as the only permanent member of the UN Security Council not bound by the treaty ) .
7 Non-US vessels are not bound by the MMPA , they are not required to carry any dolphin-saving equipment , and they rarely carry observers .
8 The inspector is not bound by the sheriff 's opinion and his report will in all probability put matters in the correct perspective with appropriate recommendations .
9 that it was not bound by the resolution of the House to the effect that the matter was privileged , for it affected the rights of subjects outside the House ;
10 The dissenting member may be able to protest , by analogy with customary international law : a State that protests from the outset is not bound by the rule , while protest negates the very possibility of estoppel .
11 Landlords are continuing to issue occupiers of their property with " licence agreements " ; only a very small proportion will appreciate that they are not bound by the agreement they have signed , and realise that they have the right to a fair rent and security of tenure .
12 The office of the legislature is sovereign and is not bound by the sanction of any superior authority , any constitutive purpose , or the approval of subjects .
13 Germany was not bound by an agreement between the Netherlands and Denmark , and Article 6 could not be used to achieve indirectly what had not been done directly .
14 LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor .
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