CHAPTER III
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
18. Provisions to secure protection of law.
(6) No person shall be tried for a criminal offence if he shows that he has been granted a pardon for that offence.
Part 3 Punishments
Article 16 Effect of a free or conditional pardon
(1) Where either a free or conditional pardon is lawfully granted to any offender convicted of any offence punishable with death or otherwise, the discharge of such offender out of custody, in the case of a free pardon, and the performance of the condition, in the case of a conditional pardon, shall have the same effect within Barbados as a pardon under the Great Seal of England has in England for such offender as to the offence for which such pardon is so granted.
(2) No free pardon, nor any such discharge in consequence thereof, nor any conditional pardon, nor the performance of the condition thereof, in any of the cases aforesaid, shall prevent or mitigate the punishment to which the offender might otherwise be lawfully sentenced on a subsequent conviction for any offence committed after the granting of any such pardon.
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;