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Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishHuman dignity is inviolable and everyone shall be obliged to respect and protect it.
Everyone shall have the right to free development of his personality if this does not violate the rights of others guaranteed by the Constitution. (Art. 23) - Serbian CyrillicЉудско достојанство је неприкосновено и сви су дужни да га поштују и штите.
Свако има право на слободан развој личности, ако тиме не крши права других зајемчена Уставом. (Члан 23)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English
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2. When martial law is declared, the King may by a Royal Decree issue any instructions as may be necessary for the purposes of the defence of the Kingdom, notwithstanding the provisions of any law in force. All persons charged with the implementation of such instructions shall remain to be subject to the legal liability resultant from their acts under the provisions of the laws until they are relieved of such liability by a special law to be enacted for this purpose. (Art. 125)
- Arabic
2 .عند اعلان الاحكام العرفية للملك ان يصدر بمقتضى ارادة ملكية اية تعليمات قد تقضى الضرورة بهالاغراض الدفاع عن المملكة بقطع النظر عن احكام اي قانون معمول به ويظل جميع الاشخاص القائمينبتنفيذ تلك التعليمات عرضه للمسؤولية القانونية التي تترتب على اعمالهم ازاء احكام القوانين الى انيعفوا من تلك المسؤولية بقانون خاص يوضع لهذه الغاية. … (المادة 125)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe rights and [the] guarantees granted by the Constitution do not exclude others that, even though they are not expressly mentioned in it, are inherent to the human person.
The social interest prevails over the individual [particular] interest.
The laws and the government provisions or [those of] any other order that reduce, restrict, or distort the rights guaranteed by the Constitution are void ipso jure. (Art. 44) - SpanishLos derechos y garantías que otorga la Constitución no excluyen otros que, aunque no figuren expresamente en ella, son inherentes a la persona humana.
El interés social prevalece sobre el interés particular.
Serán nulas ipso jure las leyes y las disposiciones gubernativas o de cualquier otro orden que disminuyan, restrinjan o tergiversen los derechos que la Constitución garantiza. (Art. 44)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishReserving to all Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Templars, Hospitallers, Earls, Barons, and all Persons, as well Spiritual as Temporal, all their free Liberties and free Customs, which they have had in time passed. And all these Customs and Liberties aforesaid, which We have granted to be holden within this our Realm, as much as appertaineth to Us and our Heirs, we shall observe; and all Men of this our Realm, as well Spiritual as Temporal, as much as in them is, shall observe the same against all Persons, in like wise. And for this our Gift and Grant of these Liberties, and of other contained in our Charter of Liberties of our Forest, the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Knights, Freeholders, and other our Subjects, have given unto Us the Fifteenth Part of all their Moveables. And We have granted unto them on the other part, that neither We nor our Heirs shall procure or do any thing whereby the Liberties in this Charter contained shall be infringed or broken. And if any thing be procured by any person contrary to the premises, it shall be had of no force nor effect.
… (Magna Carta, Closing Text: General Saving. Observance of these Liberties. Subsidy, in respect of this Charter and Charter of the Forest)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English…
(5) Emergency regulations may not amend—
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(b) the Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42). (Civil Contingencies Act 2004, Sec. 23)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe President, in promulgating an ordinance and declaring a state of emergency :
(a) shall specify in the said ordinance the areas and the duration that the state of emergency is in operation;
(b) may, if necessary, restrict or suspend as required, one or more fundamental rights of the citizens residing in the areas where the state of emergency is in operation. (Sec. 414) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတသည် ဥပဒေကဲ့သို့ အာဏာတည်သည့် အမိန့်ထုတ်ပြန်၍ အရေးပေါ် အခြေအနေ ကြေညာသည့်အခါ -
(က) ယင်းအမိန့်တွင် အရေးပေါ်အခြေအနေ အကျိုးသက်ရောက်သည့် နယ်မြေဒေသနှင့် အချိန်ကာလတို့ကို သတ်မှတ်ဖော်ပြရမည်၊
(ခ) လိုအပ်ပါက အရေးပေါ်အခြေအနေ အကျိုးသက်ရောက်သည့် နယ်မြေဒေသအတွင်း နေထိုင်ကြသော နိုင်ငံသားများ၏ မူလအခွင့်အရေးတစ်ရပ်ရပ်ကိုဖြစ်စေ၊ တစ်ရပ် ထက်ပို၍ ဖြစ်စေ လိုအပ်သလို ကန့်သတ်နိုင်သည် သို့မဟုတ် ရပ်ဆိုင်ထားနိုင်သည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၄၁၄)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe enunciation of the rights and guarantees contained in this Constitution must not be understood as the negation of others that, being inherent to the human personality, do not expressively figure in it. The lack of [a] regulatory law may not be invoked to deny or to curtail any right or guarantee. (Art. 45)
- SpanishLa enunciación de los derechos y garantías contenidos en esta Constitución no debe entenderse como negación de otros que, siendo inherentes a la personalidad humana, no figuren expresamente en ella. La falta de ley reglamentaria no podrá ser invocada para negar ni para menoscabar algún derecho o garantía. (Art. 45)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English(1) When a Proclamation of Emergency has been made and so long as it remains in force, the Head of State may from time to time make such Orders (hereinafter referred to as Emergency Orders) as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for securing the public safety, the defence of Samoa and the efficient prosecution of any war in which Samoa may be engaged, for maintaining public order and the supplies and services essential to the life of the community, and generally for safeguarding the interests and maintaining the welfare of the community.
(2) Emergency Orders may empower or provide for empowering such authorities, persons or classes of persons as may be specified in the Orders to make regulations, rules or bylaws for any of the purposes for which Emergency Orders are authorised under the provisions of this Article to be made, and may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the Head of State to be necessary or expedient for making effective the powers conferred under the provisions of clause (1).
(3) Every Emergency Order, if otherwise valid, shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in Part II.
(4) No provision of any Emergency Order, and no regulation, rule or by-law duly made under the provisions of any such Order, shall be invalid because it deals with any matter already provided for under any law or because of any inconsistency with any such law. (Art. 106) - Samoan(1) I se tulaga ua uma ai ona faia se Poloaiga o se Faalavelave Tupu Faafuasei ma i le vaitaimi uma e faamamaluina ai, e mafai e le Ao o le Malo mai i lea taimi i lea taimi ona faia ni poloaiga (e amata atu nei ona taua o Poloaiga o Faalavelave Tutupu Faafuasei) e pei ona o le a ia silafia ua tatau po o le faafaigofieina ai mo le taofimauina o le saogalemu o le atunuu, le puipuiga o Samoa mai taua faapea le faataunuuina i se tulaga manaomia o so o se taua e ono auai Samoa, mo le tausiga o le nofo filemu o tagata atoa ma mea e fia maua mai ma galuega e tatau mo le soifuaga o tagata uma, ma i le itu aoao mo le puipuiga malu o aia ma le tausiga o le sologa manuia o le atunuu.
(2) E mafai e Poloaiga o Faalavelave Tutupu Faafuasei ona tuuina atu le pule po o le aiaia mo le tuuina atu o le pule i ni pulega, tagata po o vasega o tagata e pei ona o le a faasinoina mai i Poloaiga ia fai ai tulafono faatonutonu, tulafono e puipui ai po o tulafono iti mo so o se faatatauga ua faatagaina ai Poloaiga o Faalavelave Tutupu Faafuasei e tusa ma aiaiga o lenei Mataupu ina ia faia, ma e mafai ona aofia ai ni aiaiga faaopoopo ma itu e aafia e pei ona silafia e le Ao o le Malo ua tatau ai po o le talafeagai ma le tulaga ua i ai mo le faatinoina o pulega na tuuina atu e tusa ma aiaiga o le fuaiupu (1).
(3) O poloaiga o faalavelave tutupu faafuasei uma, ae ese ai pe a o tumau pea le faaaogaina, o le a faatinoina e ui lava i so o se mea o lo o aofia i le Vaega II.
(4) E leai se aiaiga o so o se Poloaiga o Faalavelave Tutupu Faafuasei, ma e leai se tulafono faatonutonu po o se tulafono e puipui ai po o se tulafono laitiiti na faia ma le tatau ai e tusa ma aiaiga o so o sea Poloaiga, o le a faaleaogaina ona ua faapea e faasino i so o se mataupu ua uma ona aiaia e so o se tulafono po ona o le le talafeagai ai ma sea tulafono. (Mataupu 106)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English… The limitation in implementing rights and liberties of individual and citizen shall be allowed only with the aim of ensuring the rights and freedoms of other citizens, public order, protection of the foundations of the constitutional system, state security, national defense, public morality, public health and territorial integrity of the republic. (Art. 14)
- Russian... Ограничения прав и свобод человека и гражданина допускаются только с целью обеспечения прав и свобод других граждан, общественного порядка, защиты основ конституционного строя, безопасности государства, обороны страны, общественной морали, здоровья населения и территориальной целостности республики. (Статья 14)
- Tajik… Маідуд кардани іуѕуѕу озодиіои инсон ва шаірванд таніо ба маѕсади таъмини іуѕуѕ ва озодии дигарон, тартиботи їамъиятњ, іимояи асосіои сохтори конститутсионњ, амнияти давлат, мудофиаи мамлакат, ахлоѕи їомеа, сиіатии аіолњ ва тамомияти арзии їуміурњ раво дониста мешавад. (Моддаи 14)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English(1) An Act to which this section applies may expressly declare that it shall have effect even though inconsistent with sections 4 and 5 and if any such Act does so declare, it shall have effect accordingly unless the Act is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in a society that has a proper respect for the rights and freedoms of the individual.
(2) An Act to which this section applies is one the Bill for which has been passed by both Houses of Parliament and at the final vote thereon in each House has been supported by the votes of not less than three-fifths of all the members of that House.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) the number of members of the Senate shall, notwithstanding the appointment of temporary members in accordance with section 44, be deemed to be the number of members specified in section 40(l). (Sec. 13)