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CIVIL & FOLITICAL COVENANT (Cont'd)

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ARTICLE 9

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the riɲnt of everyone to social security, including social insurance.

U.K. Reservation

"The Government of the United Kingdom while recognising the right of everyone to social security in accordance with Article 9 reserve the right to postpone implementation of the right in the Cayman Islands and the Falkland Islands because of shortage of resources in these territories."

Article 11

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appro priate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.

2. The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the funda- mental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programines, which are needed:

(a) To improve inethods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by dis- seminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efli- 'cient development and utilization of natural resources;

(b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need.

(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; '

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(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 sections 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 provi- sion, or authorises the doing during any such period of any thing, that is reasonably justifiable in the circumstances of any situation arising or existing during the period for the purpose of dealing with that situation.

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