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Section 8, REPEALED THE CONSTITUTION OF SIERRA LEONE 1978-12
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of movement. (1) No person shall be deprived of his freedom of movement, and for the purposes of this Section the said freedommeans the right to move freely throughout Sierra Leone, the right to reside in any part of Sierra Leone, the right to
enter or leave Sierra Leone, and immunity from expulsion from Sierra Leone.
(2) Any restriction on a person's freedom of movement which is involved in his lawful detention shall not be held to
be inconsistent with or in contravention of this Section.
(3) Nothing contained in or done under 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 makes provision:
a) which is reasonably required in the interests of defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public
health or the conservation of the mineral resources of Sierra Leone except in so far as that provision or, as
the case may be, the thing done under the authority thereof is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in a
democratic society; or
b) for the imposition of restrictions on the movement or residence within Sierra Leone of any person who is
not a citizen thereof or the exclusion or expulsion from Sierra Leone of any such person; or
c) for the imposition of restrictions on the acquisition or use by any person of land or other property in Sierra
Leone; or
d) for the imposition of restrictions upon the movement or residence within Sierra Leone of public officers or
members of a defence form; or
e) for the removal of a person from Sierra Leone to be tried outside Sierra Leone for a criminal offence
recognised as such by the laws of Sierra Leone, or to serve a term of imprisonment outside Sierra Leone in
the execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted; or
f) for preventing the departure from Sierra Leone of a person who is reasonably suspected of having
committed a crime or seeking to evade the fulfilment of an obligation imposed on him under the civil law or
to evade military service.
Provided that no court or other authority shall prohibit any such pc~ from entering into or residing in any place
to which he is indigenous; or
g) for restricting vagrancy.
(4) If any person whose freedom of movement has been restricted by virtue only of such a provision as is referred to
in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) so requests at any time during the period of that restriction not earlier than six
months after he last made such a request during that period, his case shall be reviewed by an independent and
impartial tribunal established by law and presided over by a person appointed by the Chief Justice from among the
persons entitled to practise in Sierra Leone as legal practitioners.
(5) On any review by a tribunal in pursuance of subsection (4) of the case of any person whose freedom of movement
has been restricted, the tribunal may make recommendations concerning the necessity or expediency of continuing
that restriction to the authority by whom it was ordered but unless it is otherwise provided by law, that authority shall
not be obliged to act in accordance with such recommendations.
slavery and forced
labour.
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