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CHAPTER III
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Fundamental
rights and
freedoms.
25. Whereas every person in Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms,
that is to say, the right, whatever his race, place of origin,
political opinions, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect
for the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest,
to each and all of the following, namely-
(a) life, liberty, security of the person and
the protection of the law;
(b) freedom of conscience, of expression
and of assembly and association; and
(c) protection for the privacy of his home
and other property and from
deprivation of property without
compensation,
the provisions of this Chapter shall have effect for the purpose
of affording protection to those rights and freedoms subject to
such limitations of that protection as are contained in those
provisions, being limitations designed to ensure that the
enjoyment of the said rights and freedoms by any person does
not prejudice the rights and freedoms of others or the public
interest.
26. (1) No person shall be deprived of his life
intentionally save in execution of the sentence of a court in
respect of a criminal offence under any law of which he has
been convicted.
(2) A person shall not be regarded as having
been deprived of his life in contravention of this section if he
dies as the result of the use, to such extent and in such
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Protection
of right to
life.
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