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Limitations and/or Derogations
- English1. Rights and freedoms of an individual and citizen may be limited only by law and only to the extent necessary for the protection of the constitutional system, defense of public order, human rights and freedoms, and the health and morality of the population.
2. Any acts capable of violating inter-ethnic and inter-religious harmony shall be recognized as unconstitutional.
3. Restriction of the rights and freedoms of citizens for political reasons shall not be allowed in any form. The rights and freedoms provided for by articles 11, 13–15, paragraph 1 of article 16, article 17, article 19, article 22, paragraph 2 of article 26 of the Constitution, are not subject to limitation in any case. (Art. 39) - Kazak1. Адамның және азаматтың құқықтары мен бостандықтары конституциялық құрылысты қорғау, қоғамдық тәртiптi, адамның құқықтары мен бостандықтарын, халықтың денсаулығы мен имандылығын сақтау мақсатына қажеттi шамада ғана және тек заңмен шектелуi мүмкiн.
2. Ұлтаралық және конфессияаралық татулықты бұзатын кез келген әрекет конституциялық емес деп танылады.
3. Саяси себептер бойынша азаматтардың құқықтары мен бостандықтарын қандай да бiр түрде шектеуге жол берiлмейдi. Конституцияның 11; 13-15-баптарында; 16-бабының 1-тармағында; 17-бабында; 19-бабында; 22-бабында; 26-бабының 2-тармағында көзделген құқықтар мен бостандықтар ешбiр жағдайда да шектелмеуге тиiс. (39-бап)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishNothing in this Convention may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein or at their limitation to a greater extent than is provided for in the Convention. (Art. 17 of ECHR, Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule 1)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English(1) The rights set out in this Chapter may be limited by law, provided that the law is not targeted at particular individuals or groups.
(2) This right may be limited by law, or by specific exceptions in this Chapter, only if that limitation is demonstrably reasonable and justified according to the values underlying this constitution.
(3) In deciding whether a limitation is reasonable and justifiable, all relevant factors must be taken into account.
(4) The relevant factors in terms of Clause 3 include the nature and importance of the right limited, the importance of the purpose to be achieved by the limitation, whether the limitation is suitable for achieving the purpose, and whether the same purpose could be achieved while being less restrictive of the rights limited.
(5) Possible restriction of fundamental rights during a state of emergency is dealt with in Chapter 14, Article 131 of this Constitution. (Art. 38) - Somali(1) Xuquuqda lagu sheegay Cutubkan waxaa xaddidi kara sharciga, haddii sharcigaasi uusan si gaar ah u bar-tilmaameedsanayn shakhsiyaad ama kooxo.
(2) Xuquuqdan waxaa xaddidaya sharciga, ama waxaaba si gaar ah loogu asteeyay cutubkan, waase haddii xaddidaaddaasi ay tahay mid si cad u maangal ah ama kuwo la aqbali karo oo waafaqsan qiyamka lagu qeexay Dastuurka.
(3) Marka go’aan laga gaarayo in xaddididda xuquuqdu ay noqoto mid la aqbali karo oo maangal ah, waa in dhammaan arrimaha xaddeyntan khuseeya xisaabta lagu darsadaa.
(4) Arrimaha la xiriira waxaa ka mid ah dabeecadda iyo ahmiyadda xuquuqda la xaddidey iyo muhimmadda ujeeddo la rabo in lagu gaaro xaddidaadda; haddii xaddididdaasi u habboon tahay in lagu gaaro ujeeddada ama haddii isla ujeeddadaas lagu gaari karaayey iyadoo aan la xaddidin xuquuqdaas.
(5) Xaddididda suurtogalka ah ee xuquuqda asaasiga ah ee muwaaddinka xilliga xaaladda degdegga waxaa lagu sheegay Cutubka 14aad, Qodobka 131aad. (Qodobka 38aad.)
Limitations and/or Derogations
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22. Notwithstanding the rights conferred by this Constitution, nothing in this Article [Fundamental Rights] shall prevent the State from subjecting reasonable restriction by law, when it concerns:
a. The interests of the sovereignty, security, unity and integrity of Bhutan;
b. The interests of peace, stability and well-being of the nation;
c. The interests of friendly relations with foreign States;
d. Incitement to an offence on the grounds of race, sex, language, religion or region;
e. The disclosure of information received in regard to the affairs of the State or in discharge of official duties; or
f. The rights and freedom of others.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༢༢) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ལུ་མ་ལྟོས་པར་ རྩ་ཚན་འདི་ནང་བཀོད་མི་གང་རུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ ཀྱིས་ ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ལྡན་པའི་བཀག་དམ་གྱི་དབང་ལུ་བསྡུ་ནི་ལས་ སྔོན་འགོག་འབད་ནི་མེད་པའི་འབྲེལ་གནད་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་གི་རང་བཙན་དང་ བདེ་སྲུང་ གཅིག་མཐུན་ གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་མཐའ་དོན་སྐོར་ ཡང་ན།
ཁ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ བརྟན་གཞི་ བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱི་མཐའ་དོན་སྐོར།
ག༽ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཚུ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཛའ་བཤེས་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་མཐའ་དོན་སྐོར།
ང་༽ རིགས་རུས་ ཡང་ན་ ཕོ་མོ་ སྐད་ཡིག་ ཆོས་ལུགས་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་བཅས་ཀྱི་གཞི་ གནད་ཐོག་ གནོད་འགེལ་ཅིག་ནང་ ངན་བསྐུལ་སྐོར།
ཅ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་འབྲེལ་དོན་སྐོར་ ཡང་ན་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འགན་ཁུར་འཐབ་པའི་ སྐབས་ལུ་འབྱོར་བའི་གནས་ཚུལ་གསང་སྒྲོག་སྐོར། ཡང་ན།
ཆ༽ གཞན་གྱི་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་དལ་དབང་སྐོར།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Limitations and/or Derogations
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2. In case of declaration of a state of emergency or martial law, the human rights and freedoms as determined by the Constitution and other laws may be subject to limitation only by a law. Such a law shall not affect the right to life, the freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as the right not to be subjected to torture, inhuman and cruel treatment.
3. In exercising his/her rights and freedoms one shall not infringe the national security, rights and freedoms of others, and violate public order. (Art. 19) - Mongolian
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2. Онц болон дайны байдал зарласан тохиолдолд Үндсэн хууль, бусад хуульд заасан хүний эрх, эрх чөлөөг гагцхүү хуулиар хязгаарлаж болно. Тийнхүү хязгаарласан хууль нь хүний амьд явах эрх, итгэл үнэмшилтэй байх, шашин шүтэх, эс шүтэх эрх чөлөө, түүнчлэн хэнд боловч эрүү шүүлт тулгах, хүнлэг бус, хэрцгий хандахыг хориглосон хуулийн заалтыг үл хөндөнө.
3. Хүн эрх, эрх чөлөөгөө эдлэхдээ үндэсний аюулгүй байдал, бусад хүний эрх, эрх чөлөөг хохироож, нийгмийн хэв журмыг гажуудуулж болохгүй. (Арван есдүгээр зүйл)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishWE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on noncitizens, all persons in our country are entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever their race, tribe, places of origin, political opinion, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the legitimate public interest,
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and have accordingly included in this Constitution provisions designed to afford protection to those rights and freedoms, subject to such limitations on that protection as are contained in those provisions, being limitations primarily designed to ensure that the enjoyment of the acknowledged rights and freedoms by an individual does not prejudice the rights and freedoms of others or the legitimate public interest. (Preamble, Basic Rights)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English1. In the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms prescribed in this Chapter6, no person shall prejudice the fundamental or other human rights and freedoms of others or the public interest.
2. Public interest under this article shall not permit-
a. political persecution;
b. detention without trial;
c. any limitation of the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms prescribed by this Chapter beyond what is acceptable and demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society, or what is provided in this Constitution. (Art. 43)
Limitations and/or Derogations
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(5)(a) Subject to paragraph (b), no provision of any ordinance promulgated under this Article, and no provision of any Act which is passed while a Proclamation of Emergency is in force and which declares that the law appears to Parliament to be required by reason of the emergency, shall be invalid on the ground of inconsistency with any provision of this Constitution.
(b) Paragraph (a) shall not validate any provision inconsistent with —
(iii) the provisions of this Constitution relating to religion, citizenship or language.
… (Art. 150)
Limitations and/or Derogations
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Restrictions on the rights, on the freedoms and on the guarantees may only intervene by a law and for motives related to the maintenance of the public order, of the security, and of the protection of the national constants[,] as well as those necessary for the safeguarding of other rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution.
In any case [état de cause], these restrictions may not infringe the essence of those rights and freedoms.
... (Art. 34) - Arabic
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لا يمكن تقييد الحقوق والحريات والضمانات إلاّ بموجب قانون، ولأسباب مرتبطة بحفظ النظام العام والأمن، وحماية الثوابت الوطنية وكذا تلك الضرورية لحماية حقوق وحريات أخرى يكرسها الدستور.
في كل الأحوال، لا يمكن أن تمس هذه القيود بجوهر الحقوق والحريات.
... (المــادة 34) - French
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Aucune restriction aux droits, aux libertés et aux garanties ne peut intervenir que par une loi et pour des motifs liés au maintien de l’ordre public, de la sécurité, et de la protection des constantes nationales ainsi que ceux nécessaires à la sauvegarde d’autres droits et libertés protégés par la Constitution.
En tout état de cause, ces restrictions ne peuvent porter atteinte à l’essence de ces droits et libertés.
... (Art. 34)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishWhereas every person in The Bahamas is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, has 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,
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the subsequent provisions of this Chapter5 shall have effect for the purpose of affording protection to the aforesaid 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 individual does not prejudice the rights and freedoms of others or the public interest. (Art. 15)