Questions tagged [netherlands]
For questions involving the Netherlands, both kingdom and country.
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Until otherwise signposted, do Dutch highways default to a 130 km/h maximum speed even during daytime?
Dutch highways default to a 130 km/h speed limit (per article 21 of the Dutch Traffic Law). In the current situation, all Dutch highways have a reduced speed limit of 100 km/h between 6:00 and 19:00 ...
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If a Dutch/Indian couple register their baby's birth with India, does it cease to be Dutch due to "voluntarily adopting" another citizenship?
Section 4 of The Citizenship Act, 1955 (as amended by subsequent law) states that a child born outside India to an Indian parent has Indian "citizenship by descent" (which can coexist with ...
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What's the legal difference between a security camera and filming on your smartphone?
In the Netherlands you should not have your security cameras record the public space (e.g. the road in front of your house), basically because recording the public space would infringe on people's ...
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Betting with VPN [closed]
The Stake Online Casino is not available in the Netherlands. However, you can bypass this geoblocking with a VPN. Is this a legal thing to do? And can Stake find out in any way?
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What are requirements to determine options for statutory or private health insurance after moving back from abroad (in the EU)?
When a person moves back to Germany after being abroad in the EU (e.g. Netherlands) long enough to have to insure themselves there and not be insured in Germany anymore, what determines if you can be ...
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Does receiving an email informing me of a change in policy mean I automatically agree with it, unless I object?
Several years ago I bought a domain name. I have never really used it, and have been wanting to get rid of it for quite some time now, but every year the hosting service finds another trick to make me ...
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What are the grounds for close in age exceptions in the Netherlands?
The age of consent in the Netherlands is 16 but
Netherlands statutory rape law is violated when an individual has consensual sexual contact with a person under age 16 out of wedlock. Close in age ...
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Alimony on gross salary
How does someone pay alimony on their gross salary if they are employed by someone else?
Suppose the partners agree on giving half of the gross monthly salary as alimony. If said person has X gross ...
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Is there a government department in the Netherlands regulating sex work?
Do the Netherlands have a government department that specializes in understanding and analyzing sex work, and is tasked with maximizing the legal rights, ethical conditions, and positive outcomes for ...
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Being employed in two EU countries simultaneously
Is it possible (legal) to be employed in two jobs (full time) in two different European countries at the same time?
Secondly, is it possible to have work permits of two countries simultaneously being ...
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Can you refuse services to businesses you deem unethical?
As a business owner, is it within my rights to refuse to sell products to other businesses that I personally view as unethical, such as Facebook, due to their alleged questionable or harmful practices?...
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If a party does not fulfil an obligation of a clause, and the other party ignores the failure for a long time, is the clause still legally valid?
Say there's a clause (art. 14) that creates an obligation for party A, from which an obligation for party B follows. Say it looks like this:
art.14. Every year, no later than six months after the end ...
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Why, in the JIT's opinion, was it murder to mistakingly shoot down the Malaysian plane over Ukraine in 2014?
If the court adjudicated that they didn't shoot the MH17 plane on purpose (they thought, mistakenly, that it was a Ukrainian military aircraft), why did it find the defendants guilty of murder as ...
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What are my rights if my boss paid me 600 euro too much for 2 years long?
My little brother, lets call him A for now, came to me today and said his boss, call him B, came to him and said that he (B) had been paying him (A) 600 euro too much for 2 years long. Ofcourse B ...
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Effect of non-compete of ex-employee clause after legal merge in Netherlands
If an employee of company A in the Netherlands with a non-compete clause quits before transfer of undertaking for the legal merge with company B(overgang van onderneming), would the non-compete clause ...
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