Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1996Vol. 66 No. 11

of Tonga

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

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Extracts from the constitution

4. There shall be but one law in Tonga for chiefs and commoners, for Europeans and Tongans. No laws shall be enacted for one class and not for another class but the law shall be the same for all the people of this land. 7. It shall be lawful for all people to speak, write and print their opinions and no law shall ever be enacted to restrict this liberty. There shall be freedom of speech and of the Press forever but nothing in this clause shall be held to outweigh the law of slander or the laws for the protec tion of the king and the royal family. 70. If anyone shall speak or act disre spectfully in the presence of the Legislative Assembly it shall be lawful to imprison him for 30 days and whoever shall publish any libel on the Legislative Assembly, or threaten any member or his property, or rescue any person whose arrest has been ordered by the Legislative Assembly, may be imprisoned for not

exceeding 30 days . ■

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