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Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1991 (Amendment) Decree, 1997

A 1997 decree purporting to amend the 1991 Constitution during the period of AFRC rule.

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Summary

This Decree of 1997 purported to amend the 1991 Constitution during the period of Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) rule, when the elected government had been overthrown and ordinary constitutional government suspended.

Instruments of this kind were made outside the Constitution's own entrenched amendment procedure. They belong to the body of AFRC-era enactments that were addressed, and generally treated as void or repealed, on the restoration of the elected government in 1998. The Decree is of historical and legal interest in that context.

Main provisions

  • Purports to amend the 1991 Constitution during AFRC rule.
  • Made outside the Constitution's entrenched amendment procedure.
  • Part of the body of AFRC-era instruments of 1997.
  • Addressed on the restoration of constitutional government in 1998.