Human Rights Commission Act, 2000
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Institution of legal proceedings by Commission. |
11.—(1) The Commission may institute proceedings in any Court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of obtaining relief of a declaratory or other nature in respect of any matter concerning the human rights of any person or class of persons. | |
(2) The declaratory relief the Commission may seek to obtain in such proceedings includes relief by way of a declaration that a statute or a provision thereof is invalid having regard to the provisions of the Constitution or was not continued in force by Article 50 of the Constitution. | ||
(3) In this section— | ||
“human rights” means— | ||
(a) the rights, liberties and freedoms conferred on, or guaranteed to, persons by the Constitution, and | ||
(b) the rights, liberties or freedoms conferred on, or guaranteed to, persons by any agreement, treaty or convention to which the State is a party and which has been given the force of law in the State or by a provision of any such agreement, treaty or convention which has been given such force; | ||
“statute” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act, 1937 . |