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Paragraph 54 Protection from inhuman treatment.

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

(1)

No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

(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 authorises the infliction of any description of punishment that was lawful in Montserrat immediately before the commencement of this Constitution.