CIVIL & POLITICAL COVENANT (Cont'd)
Article 7
No one-shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free couent to medical or scientific experimentation.
Article 8
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1. No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all their forns shall be prohibited.
2. No one shall be held in servitude.
3. (a) No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour; (b) Paragraph 3 (a) shall not be held to preclude, in countries where imprisonment with hard labour may be imposed as a punishment for a crime, the performance of hard labour in pursuance of a sentence to such punishment by a competent court;
(c) For the purpose of this paragraph the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include:
(i) Any work or service, not referred to in sub-paragraph (b), nor- mally required of a person who is under detention in con- sequence of a lawful order of a court, or of a person during condi- tional release from such detention;
(ii) Any service of a military character and, in countries where con. scientious objection is recognized, any national service required by law of conscientious objectors;
(iii; Any service exacted in cases of emergency or calamity threaten.
ing the life or well-being of the community;
(iv) Any work or service which forms part of normal civil obligations.
Article 17 [text below]
Article 9
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ECONOMIC & SOCIAL COVENANT (Cont'd)
7
Protection from inhuman treatment
Protection
from slavery and forced labour.
Protection
from
arbitrary search of entry.
BELIZE CONSTITUTICH_ (Cont'd)
7. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
8-(1) No person shall be held in slavery or servitude. (2) No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the expression “forced labour” does not include-
(a) any labour required in consequence of the sentence or order of a
court;
(b) labour required of any person while he is lawfully detained that, though not required in consequence of the sentence or order of a court, is reasonably necessary in the interests of hygiene or for the maintenance of the place at which he is detained;
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(c) any labour required of a member of a disciplined force in
suance of his duties as such or, in the case of a person who has conscientious oυjections to service as a member of a naval, milit- ary or air force, any labour that that person is required by law to perform in place of such service; or
(d) any labour required during any period of public emergency or in the event of any accident or natural calamity that threatens the life and well-being of the community, to the extent that the requiring of such labour is reasonably justifiable in the circumstances of any situation arising or existing during that period or as a result of that accident or natural calamity, for the purpose of dealing with that situation.
9.-(1) Except with his own consent, a person shall not be subjected to the search of his person or his property or the entry by others on his premises.
(2) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of this section to the
extent that the law in question makes reasonable provision-
(a) that is required in the interests of defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public health, town and country planning. the development and utilisation of mineral resources or the development or utilisation of any property for a purpose beneficial to the community;
(b) that is required for the purpose of protecting the rights or
freedoms of other persons;
(c) that authorises an officer or agent of the Government, a local government authority or a body corporate established by law for public purposes to enter on the premises of any person in order to inspect those premises or anything thereon for the purpose of any tax, rate or due or in order to carry out work connected with any property that is lawfully on those premises and that belongs to the Government or to that authority or body corporate, as the case may be; or
(d) that authorises, for the purpose of enforcing the judgment or order of the court in any civil proceedings, the search of any person or property by order of a court or entry upon any premises by such order.
Protection
of right to personal liberty,
5.-(1) A person shall not be deprived of his personal liberty save as may be authorised by law in any of the following cases, that is to say:--- (a) in consequence of his unfitness to plead to a criminal charge or in execution of the sentence or order of a court, whether established for Belize or some other country, in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted;
(b) in execution of the order of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal punishing him for contempt of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal or of another court or tribunal;
(c) in execution of the order of a court made to secure the fulfilment
of any obligation imposed on him by law;