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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
- English
Nothing in this Division7 derogates the rights and freedoms of the individual under any other law and, in particular, an Organic Law or an Act of the Parliament may provide further guarantees of rights and freedoms and may further restrict the limitations that may be placed on, or on the exercise of, any right or freedom (including the limitations that may be imposed under Section 38 (general qualifications on qualified rights)). (Sec. 33)
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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(7) The exercise and operation of all the fundamental rights declared and recognized by Articles 12, 13(1), 13(2) and 14 shall be subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by law in the interests of national security, public order and the protection of public health or morality, or for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others, or of meeting the just requirements of the general welfare of a democratic society. For the purposes of this paragraph “law” includes regulations made under the law for the time being relating to public security.
… (Art. 15) - Sinhala...
(7) 12 වැනි ව්යවස්ථාවෙන්, 13 වැනි ව්යවස්ථාවේ (1) වැනි හා (2) වැනි අනුව්යවස්ථාවලින් සහ 14 වැනි ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් ප්රකාශ කොට පිළිගෙන ඇති සියලුම මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් භුක්ති විඳිය හැක්කේ ද, ක්රියාත්මක විය හැක්කේ ද, රාජ්ය ආරක්ෂාව ද, රටේ යථා පැවැත්ම ද, තහවුරු කිරීම පිණිසත්, මහජන සෞඛ්යය හෝ සදාචාරය ආරක්ෂා කිරීම පිණිසත්, අන්යයන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් හා නන් වැදෑරුම් නිදහස නිසි පරිදි පිළිගන්නා බවට සහ ඊට නිසි පරිදි ගරු කරන බවට වගබලා ගැනීම පිණිසත්, ප්රජාතන්තවාදී සමාජයක පොදු සුභසාධනය සඳහා යුක්ති සහගතව අවශ්ය දෑ සපුරාලීම පිණිසත්, නීතියෙන් නියම කරනු ලැබිය හැකි සීමා කිරීම්වලට යටත්ව ය. මෙම අනුව්යවස්ථාවේ කාර්ය සඳහා "නීතිය" යන්නට මහජන ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳව තත්කාලයේ අදාළ වන නීතිය යටතේ සාදන ලද නියෝග ද ඇතුළත් වන්නේ ය.
… (15 වැනි වගන්තිය)
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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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
- EnglishThe National Assembly shall have exclusive power to legislate on the following matters:
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c) Restrictions and limitations on the rights, freedoms and guarantees of citizens;
… (Art. 164) - PortugueseÀ Assembleia Nacional compete legislar com reserva absoluta sobre as seguintes matérias:
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c) Restrições e limitações aos direitos, liberdades e garantias dos cidadãos;
… (Art. 164)
Limitations and/or Derogations
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2. Human rights and citizens’ rights may not be limited unless prescribed by a law solely in case of necessity for reasons of national defense, national security, social order and safety, social morality and community well-being. (Art. 14) - Vietnamese…
2. Quyền con người, quyền công dân chỉ có thể bị hạn chế theo quy định của luật trong trường hợp cần thiết vì lý do quốc phòng, an ninh quốc gia, trật tự, an toàn xã hội, đạo đức xã hội, sức khỏe của cộng đồng. (Điều 14)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English...
(9) During any period of public emergency, the following provisions shall have effect-
(a) the Governor-General may make such regulations as are necessary or expedient for securing public safety, the defence of Belize, the maintenance of public order and the suppression of mutiny, rebellion and riot, and for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community;
(b) any such regulations may empower such authorities or persons as may be specified in the regulations to make orders and rules for any of the purposes for which such regulations are authorised by this subsection to be made and may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations;
(c) any such regulations or any order or rule made in pursuance of such regulations may amend or suspend the operation of any law and shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any law;
(d) in this subsection, "law" does not include this Constitution or any provision thereof or any law that alters this Constitution or any provision thereof.
(10) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law (including any regulations made under subsection (9) of this section) shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of section 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 17 of this Constitution to the extent that the law in question makes in relation to any period of public emergency provision, or authorises the doing during any such period of anything, that is reasonably justifiable in the circumstances of any situation arising or existing during the period for the purpose of dealing with that situation. (Sec. 18)
Limitations and/or Derogations
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Each citizen has the right to the full development [épanouissement] of his person within respect for the rights of others, of the public order, of ethics [morale] and of morals [bonnes mœurs].
… (Art. 8) - French…
Chaque citoyen a droit au plein épanouissement de sa personne dans le respect des droits d’autrui, de l’ordre public, de la morale et des bonnes mœurs.
… (Art. 8)