The Bahamas Independence Order 1973 No. 1080

SCHEDULE TO THE ORDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

CHAPTER III PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Protection from inhuman treatment

17.—(1) No person shall be subjected to torture of 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 Article to the extent that the law in question authorises the infliction of any description of punishment that was lawful in the Bahamas Islands immediately before 10th July 1973.