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Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishDuring the state of emergency, the President can, after approval by the presidents of the National Assembly as well as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, suspend the enforcement of the following provisions or place restrictions on them:
1. Clause Two of Article Twenty-Seven;
2. Article Thirty-Six;
3. Clause Two of Article Thirty-Seven;
4. Clause Two of Article Thirty-Eight. (Art. 145) - Dariدر حالت اضطرار، رئیس جمهور می تواند بعد از تائید رؤسای شورای ملی و ستره محكمه، تنفیذ احكام ذیل را معطل بسازد و یا بر آنها قیودی وضع نماید:
١- فقرۀ دوم مادۀ بیست وهفتم؛
٢- مادۀ سی و ششم؛
٣- فقره دوم مادۀ سی و هفتم؛
٤- فقره دوم مادۀ سی و هشتم. (مادۀ ۱۴۵) - Pashtoپه اضطراري حالت كې جمهور رئيس كولاى شي چې د ملي شورى او د سترې محكمې د رئيسانو تر تائيد وروسته د اساسي قانون لاندينى حكمونه و ځنډوي او يا قيود پرې ولگوي:
١- د اوه ويشتمې مادې دويمه فقره؛
٢- شپږ دېرشمه ماده؛
٣- د اوه دېرشمي مادې دويمه فقره؛
٤- د اته دېرشمي مادې دويمه فقره. (۱۴۵ ماده)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make emergency regulations if satisfied that the conditions in section 21 are satisfied.
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(5) Regulations under this section must be prefaced by a statement by the person making the regulations—
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(iv) is satisfied that the regulations are compatible with the Convention rights (within the meaning of section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42)).
... (Civil Contingencies Act 2004, Sec. 20)
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
- EnglishExcept in the following situations and time, no citizen shall be denied redress by due process of law for grievances entitled under law :
(a) in time of foreign invasion;
(b) in time of insurrection;
(c) in time of emergency. (Sec. 381) - Burmeseအောက်ဖော်ပြပါ အခြေအနေနှင့် အချိန်အခါမှတစ်ပါး နိုင်ငံသားများ၏တရားဝင်ရပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နစ်နာချက်များအတွက် ဥပဒေဖြင့် သတ်မှတ်ထားသော ရယူပိုင်ခွင့်များကို ငြင်းပယ်ခြင်းမပြုရ -
(က) တိုင်းတစ်ပါးမှ ကျူးကျော်ဝင်ရောက်တိုက်ခိုက်ချိန်၊
(ခ) ဆူပူသောင်းကျန်းမှုများဖြစ်ပေါ်နေချိန်၊
(ဂ) အရေးပေါ် အခြေအနေ ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေချိန်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၈၁)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English
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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.
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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
- 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
- English1. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution relating to a state of emergency, the fundamental rights and liberties guaranteed by this Part shall not be subjected to any other limitations or restrictions than those in this Part provided.
2. The provisions of this Part relating to such limitations or restrictions shall be interpreted strictly and shall not be applied for any purpose other than those for which they have been prescribed. (Art. 33) - Greek1. Τηρουμένων των διατάξεως του Συντάγματος των σχετικών προς την κατάστασιν εκτάκτου ανάγκης, τα υπό του παρόντος μέρους ηγγυημένα θεμελιώδη δικαιώματα και ελευθερίαι δεν υπόκεινται εις οιονδήποτε έτερον όρον, δέσμευσιν ή περιορισμόν πλην των εν τω παρόντι μέρει οριζομένων.
2. Αι διατάξεις του παρόντος μέρους αι αναφερόμεναι εις τοιούτους όρους, δεσμεύσεις ή περιορισμούς δέον να ερμηνεύωνται στενώς και να μη εφαρμόζωνται δι’ οιονδήποτε σκοπόν διάφορον εκείνου δι’ ον εθεσπίσθησαν. (Αρθρον 33) - Turkish1. Bu Kısımla sağlanan ana hak ve hürriyetler, Anayasanın olağanüstü hâl hakkındaki hükümleri dışında, bu Kısımda konulanların haricinde hiçbir kısıtlama veya sınırlamaya tabi tutulamaz.
2. Bu Kısmın kısıtlama veya sınırlamalara dair hükümleri dar bir çerçevede yorumlanır ve konma amaçlarının dışında herhangi bir maksatla uygulanamaz. (Madde 33)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English
(1) Every person in Tuvalu is entitled, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs, disability, or sex, to the following fundamental rights and freedoms: —
(a) the right not to be deprived of life (see section 16); and
(b) personal liberty (see sections 17 and 18); and
(c) security for his person (see sections 18 and 19); and
(d) the protection of the law (see section 22); and
(e) freedom of belief (see section 23); and
(f) freedom of expression (see section 24); and
(g) freedom of assembly and association (see section 25); and
(h) protection for the privacy of his home and other property (see section 21); and
(i) protection from unjust deprivation of property (see section 20), and to other rights and freedoms set out in this Part or otherwise by law.
(2) The rights and freedoms referred to in subsection (1) can, in Tuvaluan society, be exercised only-
(a) with respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the national interest; and
(b) in acceptance of Tuvaluan values and culture, and with respect for them.
(3) The purpose of this Part is to protect those rights and freedoms, subject to limitations on them that are designed primarily to give effect to subsection (2). (Sec. 11)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishNothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of Articles 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, or 24 to the extent that it is shown that the law in question authorises the taking, during any period when the Republic is at war or when a declaration under Article 30 is in force, of measures for the purpose of dealing with any situation existing or arising during that period; and nothing done by any person under the authority of any such law shall be held to be in contravention of any of the said provisions if it is shown that the measures taken were, having due regard to the circumstances prevailing at the time, reasonably required for the purpose of dealing with the situation in question. (Art. 25)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishFundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution shall not exclude any other rights provided for by the law and shall be interpreted in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (Sec. 23)
- TetumDireitu fundamentál sira-ne’ebé konsagra iha Lei-Inan la hasai direitu selu-seluk ne’ebé temi iha lei no tenke interpreta sira tuir Deklarasaun Universál Direitus Umanus nian. (Art. 23)
- PortugueseOs direitos fundamentais consagrados na Constituição não excluem quaisquer outros constantes da lei e devem ser interpretados em consonância com a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos. (Art. 23)