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Gibraltar

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1969)
• Section 28, subsection (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to be elected as an Elected Member of the Assembly who…(f) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Gibraltar."


 
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