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**Electoral Law (Representation of the People Act) unavailable**

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution
(1966)

  • Article 38 states, “No person shall be qualified to be appointed as a Senator who...(f) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Barbados.”
  • Article 44 states, “No person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House Assembly who...(e) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Barbados.”

 
 
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