Paragraph 108 Overriding duty of public officers

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 s. 96(1) substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2016 art. 3(1)
Sch. 2 s. 97(3) deleted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2016 art. 3(2)
Sch. 2 s. 106(1) words omitted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2016 art. 3(3)(a)
Sch. 2 s. 106(1A)(1B) inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2016 art. 3(3)(b)
Sch. 2 word substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 3(1)
Sch. 2 s. 32(1) words substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 4(2)
Sch. 2 s. 32(2)(c) omitted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 4(3)
Sch. 2 s. 32(5)-(9) substituted for s. 32(5) by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 4(4)
Sch. 2 s. 44(1)(b) word substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 5(2)
Sch. 2 s. 44(2) words inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 5(3)
Sch. 2 s. 44(5) inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 5(4)
Sch. 2 s. 48(5) inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 6(2)
Sch. 2 s. 54A inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 7
Sch. 2 s. 58(4) words substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 8
Sch. 2 s. 58A 58B inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 9
Sch. 2 s. 71(1) words omitted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 10
Sch. 2 s. 77(2) substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 11(2)
Sch. 2 s. 77(4)(5) inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 11(3)
Sch. 2 s. 80 omitted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 12
Sch. 2 s. 124(1) words omitted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 13(2)
Sch. 2 s. 124(2)(a) substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 13(3)
Sch. 2 s. 124(2)(c) substituted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 13(4)
Sch. 2 s. 126 inserted by Cayman Islands Constitution 2020 art. 14

Subject to this Constitution, all public officers must—

(a)

act in accordance with the best interests of the Cayman Islands and not in their own private interests; and

(b)

implement Government policy to the best of their ability and in accordance with the directions given to them by the Cabinet or other responsible person or authority.