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Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishUnder no circumstances, may any of the provisions of this Constitution be suspended, except when martial law is in force and within the limits specified by the rules regulating martial law. … (Art. 145)
- Arabicﻻ ﻳﺠﻮﺯ ﺑﺄﻱ ﺣﺎﻝ ﺗﻌﻄﻴﻞ أﻱ ﺣﻜﻢ ﻣﻦ أﺣﻜﺎﻡ ﻫﺬﺍ اﻟﺪﺳﺘ ﻮﺭ، اﻻ أﺛﻨﺎﺀ ﻗﻴﺎﻡ اﻷﺣﻜﺎﻡ اﻟﻌﺮﻓﻴﺔ وﻓﻲ اﻟﺤﺪ وﺩ اﻟﺘﻲ ﻳﺒﻴﻨﻬﺎ اﻟﻘﺎﻧﻮﻥ اﻟﻤﻨﻈﻢ ﻟﺘﻠﻚ اﻷﺣ ﻜﺎﻡ. ... (المادّة 145)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe declaration of a state of siege or state of emergency may not in any way, affect the right to life, physical integrity, personal identity, civil capacity, citizenship, the non-retroactivity of penal law, the right of defense by the defendant and the freedom of conscience and of religion. (Art. 274)
- PortugueseA declaração do estado de sítio ou de emergência em nenhum caso pode afectar os direitos à vida, à integridade física, à identidade pessoal, à capacidade civil e à cidadania, a não retroactividade da lei penal, o direito de defesa do arguido e a liberdade de consciência e de religião. (Art. 274)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishIn exercising rights and freedoms, everyone is subject only to limitations provided for by the law aimed at ensuring recognition and respect of other people’s rights and freedoms, as well as public morals, public order and social welfare which generally characterise a democratic society. (Art. 41)
- KinyarwandaMu gukoresha uburenganzira n’ubwisanzure, buri wese azitirwa gusa n’itegeko rigamije kwemera no kubahiriza uburenganzira n’ubwisanzure by’abandi ndetse n’imyitwarire iboneye, ituze rusange rya rubanda n’imibereho myiza muri rusange biranga Igihugu kigendera kuri demokarasi. (Ingingo ya 41)
- FrenchDans l’exercice de ses droits et dans la jouissance de ses libertés, chacun n’est soumis qu’aux limitations établies par la loi ayant pour objet la reconnaissance et le respect des droits et libertés d’autrui, ainsi que les exigences de la moralité publique, de l’ordre public et du bien-être social qui caractérisent généralement une société démocratique. (Art. 41)
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- EnglishThe Constitution shall not be amended during the state of emergency. (Art. 146)
- Dariدر حالت اضطرار، قانون اساسی تعدیل نمی شود. (مادۀ ۱۴۶)
- Pashtoد اضطرار په حالت كې اساسي قانون نه تعديلېږي. (۱۴۶ ماده)
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(2) All citizens shall be equal before the law. There shall be no privileges or restriction of rights on the grounds of race, national or social origin, ethnic self-identity, sex, religion, education, opinion, political affiliation, personal or social status or property status. (Art. 6) - Bulgarian...
(2) Всички граждани са равни пред закона. Не се допускат никакви ограничения на праватɚ или привилегии, основани на раса, народност, етническа принадлежност, пол, произход, религия образование, убеждения, политическа принадлежност, лично и обществено положение илɢ имуществено състояние. (Чл. 6)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English1. The fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed under this Constitution may be limited only in so far as is in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, health or morals, for the prevention of public disorder or crime or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
2. Any law providing for the limitation of the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed in this Constitution must:
a. be consistent with the principles of democracy and justice;
b. be of general application and not negate the essential content of the right or freedom in question;
c. specify the ascertainable extent of such limitations and identify the article or articles hereof on which authority to enact such limitation is claimed to rest.
3. The provisions of Sub-Article 1 of this Article shall not be used to limit the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed under Articles 14(1) and (2); 15;16; 17 (2), (5), (7) and (8); and 19 (1) of this Constitution. (Art. 26)
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(4) The recognition of the fundamental rights set out in this Chapter does not deny the existence of any other rights that are recognized or conferred by Shari’ah, or by customary law or legislation to the extent that they are consistent with the Shari’ah and the Constitution. (Art. 40) - Somali…
(4) Xuquuqda asaasiga ah ee ku xusan Cutubkan kama hor-imaaan karaan xuquuqda kale ee Shareecada Islaamku jideysey iyo xeer-dhaqameedka la jaanqaadi kara Shareecada iyo Dastuurka. (Qodobka 40aad.)
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7. Where a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, the enforcement of the rights conferred by this Constitution under sections 2, 3, 5, 12 and 19 of Article 7 may be suspended.
… (Art. 33) - Dzongkha
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༧) ཚབས་རྡོལ་གྱི་བཀའ་ཁྱབ་བསྟར་སྤྱོད་སྐབས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་རྩ་ཚན་༧ པའི་དོན་ཚན་༢ པ་དང་ ༣ པ་ ༥ པ་ ༡༢ པ་ ༡༩ པ་བཅས་ཀྱི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་གནང་བའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཚུ་གི་ཁྱབ་དབང་སྤྱོད་ནིའི་མཚམས་འཇོག་འབད་ཆོག།
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Limitations and/or Derogations
- English(1) Laws regarding military and alternative service may provide that the basic right of members of the Armed Forces and of alternative service freely to express and disseminate their opinions in speech, writing and pictures (first clause of paragraph (1) of Article 5), the basic right of assembly (Article 8), and the right of petition (Article 17) insofar as it permits the submission of requests or complaints jointly with others, be restricted during their period of military or alternative service.
(2) Laws regarding defence, including protection of the civilian population, may provide for restriction of the basic rights of freedom of movement (Article 11) and inviolability of the home (Article 13). (Art. 17a) - German(1) Gesetze über Wehrdienst und Ersatzdienst können bestimmen, daß für die Angehörigen der Streitkräfte und des Ersatzdienstes während der Zeit des Wehr- oder Ersatzdienstes das Grundrecht, seine Meinung in Wort, Schrift und Bild frei zu äußern und zu verbreiten (Artikel 5 Abs. 1 Satz 1 erster Halbsatz), das Grundrecht der Versammlungsfreiheit (Artikel 8) und das Petitionsrecht (Artikel 17), soweit es das Recht gewährt, Bitten oder Beschwerden in Gemeinschaft mit anderen vorzubringen, eingeschränkt werden.
(2) Gesetze, die der Verteidigung einschließlich des Schutzes der Zivilbevölkerung dienen, können bestimmen, daß die Grundrechte der Freizügigkeit (Artikel 11) und der Unverletzlichkeit der Wohnung (Artikel 13) eingeschränkt werden. (Art. 17a)
Limitations and/or Derogations
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(10) Nothing in, or done under the authority of, an Act of Parliament shall be held to be inconsistent with, or in contravention of, articles 12 to 308 of this Constitution to the extent that the Act in question authorises the taking, during any period when a state of emergency is in force, of measures that are reasonably justifiable for the purposes of dealing with the situation that exists during that period. (Art. 31)