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UUN TULINITAL

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constitutions have special

provisions

for raising

constitutional issues in the courts. These will, it is understood, be the subject of another paper.

17.

Supremacy and entrenchment have, in the light of the above, been achieved in U.K. Colonies by incorporating the Bill of Fundamental Rights into the entrenched provisions of the constitution. In Antigua and Barbuda a constitutional amendment normally requires a two thirds majority of all members but, in the case of the Bill of Rights and other specially entrenched provisions

"47(5) A bill to alter this section, schedule

1 to this Constitution ΟΙ any of the provisions of this Constitution specified in Part I of that schedule Or any of the

provisions of the Supreme Court Order specified in Part II of that schedule shall not be submitted to the Governor-General for

his assent unless

(a) there has been

been an interval of not less than ninety days between the

introduction of the bill in the

House and the beginning

proceedings in the House

of

the

on

the

second reading of the bill in that

House;

(b) after it has been passed by both

Houses of Parliament or, in the case

of a

bill to which section 55 of this Constitution applies, after its rejection by the Senate for the second time; and

CONFIDENTIAL

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