Constitution Order of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1979
Marriage and Family Life
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    WHEREAS the Peoples of the Island of Saint Vincent, who are known as Vincentians-

    c. realize that the maintenance of human dignity presupposes safeguarding the rights of privacy of family life, of property and the fostering of the pursuit of just economic rewards for labor;
    … (Preamble)
Marriage and Family Life
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    (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4), (5) and (7) of this section, no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.

    (3) In this section, the expression “discriminatory” means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by sex, race, place of origin, political opinions, color or creed whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such descriptions are not made subject or are recorded privileges of advantages which are not accorded to persons of another such description.
    (4) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any law do far as that law makes provision-

    c. for the application, in the case of persons of any such description as is mentioned in subsection (3) of this section (or of persons connected with such persons), of the law with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other like matters that is the personal law of persons of that description;
    … (Sec. 13)
Marriage and Family Life
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    (1) An appeal shall lie from decisions of the Court of Appeal to Her Majesty in Council as of right in the following cases –

    b. final decisions in proceedings for dissolutions or nullity of marriage;
    … (Sec. 99)
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Chapter VII on Citizenship.
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Chapter I on Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.
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Chapter I on Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.