Paragraph 18 Protection of the environment

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

(1)

Government shall, in all its decisions, have due regard to the need to foster and protect an environment that is not harmful to the health or well-being of present and future generations, while promoting justifiable economic and social development.

(2)

To this end government should adopt reasonable legislative and other measures to protect the heritage and wildlife and the land and sea biodiversity of the Cayman Islands that—

(a)

limit pollution and ecological degradation;

(b)

promote conservation and biodiversity; and

(c)

secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources.