The constitution and laws of Barbados
Other arrangements for appeals
86. 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in Part 1 of this Chapter,
Parliament may make provision -
a. for implementing arrangements made, between the Government of Barbados and
the Government or Governments of any other part of parts of the Commonwealth
relating to the establishment of a court of appeal to be shared by Barbados
with that part or those parts of the Commonwealth, and for the hearing and
determination by such a court of appeals from decisions of any court in
Barbados; or
b. for the hearing and determination of appeals from decisions of any court in
Barbados by a court established for any other part of the Commonwealth.
2. A law enacted in pursuance of subsection (1) may provide that the
jurisdiction conferred on any such court as is referred to in that subsection
shall be to the exclusion, in whole or in part, of the jurisdiction of the
Court of Appeal established by Part 1 of this Chapter; and during any period
when jurisdiction is so conferred to the exclusion of the whole jurisdiction of
the said Court of Appeal, Parliament may suspend the provisions of the said
Part 1 establishing that Court.
3. In subsection (1) the expression "any court in Barbados" includes the Court
of Appeal established by Part 1 of this Chapter.
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