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validity of which the judgment depends, might be contrary to the Constitution, it may bring the matter before the Constitutional Court in the circumstances, manner and subject to the consequences to be laid down by law, which shall in no case have a suspensive effect.


Section 164

Effect of the Constitutional Court's decisions161, 165 C1. The judgments of the Constitutional Court shall be published in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado), with the dissenting opinions, if any. They have the force of res judicata from the day following their publication, and no appeal may be brought against them. Those declaring the unconstitutionality of an act or of a statute with the force of an act and all those which are not limited to the acknowledgment of an individual right, shall be fully binding on all persons.

2. Unless the judgment rules otherwise, the part of the act not affected by unconstitutionality shall remain in force.


Section 165

Organization and functioning of Constitutional Court81, 159, 164 CAn organic act shall make provision for the functioning of the Constitutional Court, the status of its members, the procedure to be followed before it, and the conditions governing actions brought before it.


PART X

Constitutional Amendment


Section 166

Iniative87.1 and 2, 88, 89 C 146 SOThe right to propose a constitutional amendment shall be exercised under the provisions of section 87, subsections 1 and 2.