Constitution Order of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1979
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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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
    … (Preamble)

Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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    Where every person in Saint Vincent is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms, that is to say, the right, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, color, 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-

    c. protection for the privacy of his home and other property and from deprivation of property without compensation,
    … (Sec. 1)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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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)
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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.