It has no powers to investigate, discipline or fine members for breaches of its code.
She has no powers to order change - but she can certainly cajole.
With no powers over taxes, the vast majority of the Welsh government's funding comes from an annual Treasury grant.
This means that, like the finance bills that enact Budget measures, the Lords has no powers to amend it.
While the assembly has no powers to legislate on this currently, Dr Gibbons has visited Scotland to discuss the plans.
Volunteers have no powers and follow a non-confrontational code, but if they come across an incident they will contact the police.
Thirty-one per cent said the assembly should have no powers over taxation.
And the fact the commission has no powers to discipline staff or shut down services led some to suggest that it was "toothless".
But the US has no powers over Petrobras, which is majority owned by the Brazilian government and intent on servicing local oil needs first.
City governments complain they have no powers to prosecute looters, no salary records and sometimes no access to banks in order to pay returning employees.
An agency called the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf decides on the merits of the case, but it has no powers of enforcement.
Dame Suzi Leather, chairwoman of the HFEA, said they had received some complaints about treatment that might be dangerous or banned in the UK but had no powers to act.
"The Home Office has undermined the commissioner from the start by giving him absolutely no powers to act when he views that wrongdoing may have occurred, " it said in a statement.
Contrary to Laeken's aspirations, no powers have been repatriated.
Ian Carrier, chief executive of Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA), which manages the marine environment in that area said it had "no powers to deal with this sort of altercation" and that it was a police matter.
Public Health Minister Shona Robinson said the government had no powers to tell independent voluntary organisations what to do with their services but she would ensure that the society had the views of the parliament in writing ahead of their annual general meeting at the weekend.
As part of the UK, the Scottish Government has no regulatory powers in this area.
Under EU law, the European Parliament has no legislative powers on tax policies, but must be formally consulted.
But the ICC has no arrest powers and depends on its 106 member states to take suspects into custody.
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Only last year the Swedish car giant Volvo admitted price-fixing in Britain but escaped any punishment because there were no available powers.
The MRC depends on consensus, and its members have no veto powers.
But the House of Lords has no effective powers to force a peer to repay expenses or to maintain a ban until money is repaid.
Participation in the review was voluntary and Mr Blake had no statutory powers to require people to co-operate, nor to force his recommendations to be implemented.
Under the proposal, OHIM - based in Alicante - would have no legal powers but it would be a "centre of expertise" investigating various trends in counterfeiting.
Donziger assures her there are no subpoena powers in Ecuador.
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Although the body has no direct powers to punish doctors, hospital trusts and health authorities, it can refer doctors to the GMC if it thinks the case is bad enough to merit it.
The Great Powers of 1945 are no longer the great powers of today.
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