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Part Twelve (Part XII) of the Constitution of Albania was the twelfth of eighteen parts. [1] Titled Central Election Commission, it consisted of 2 articles and was repealed by the 2008 constitutional amendments. Since then Part Twelve stays unfulfilled in the constitution accompanied by the underlined text "repealed".
The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Commonwealth realms and the Crown.
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