CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

3. Protection of right to personal liberty

1. No person shall be deprived of his personal liberty save as may be authorised by law in
any of the following cases, that is to say :-

a. in execution of the sentence or order of a court, whether established for Grenada or some other country, in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted ;
b. in execution of the order of the High Court or the Court of Appeal punishing him for contempt of that court or of another court or tribunal ;
c. in execution of the order of a court made to secure the fulfilment of any obligation imposed on him by law ;
d. for the purpose of bringing him before a court in execution of the order of a court ;
e. upon reasonable suspicion of his having committed, or being about to commit, a criminal offence under the law of Grenada ;
f. under the order of a court or with the consent of his parent or guardian, for his education or welfare during any period ending not later than the date when he attains the age of eighteen years ;
g. for the purpose of preventing the spread of an infectious or contagious disease ;
h. in the case of a person who is, or is reasonably suspected to be, of unsound mind, addicted to drugs or alcohol, or a vagrant, for the purpose of his care or treatment or the protection of the community ;
i. for the purpose of preventing the unlawful entry of that person into Grenada, or for the purpose of effecting the expulsion, extradition or other lawful removal of that person from Grenada or for the purpose of restricting that person while he is being conveyed through Grenada in the course of his extradition or removal as a convicted prisoner from one country to another ; or
j. to such extent as may be necessary in the execution of a lawful order requiring that person to remain within a specified area within Grenada, or prohibiting him from being within such an area, or to such extent as may be reasonably justifiable for the taking of proceedings against that person with a view to the making of any such order or relating to such an order after it has been made, or to such extent as may be reasonably justifiable for restraining that person during any visit that he is permitted to make to any part of Grenada in which, in consequence of any such order, his presence would otherwise be unlawful.

CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

3. Protection of right to personal liberty

3. Any person who is arrested or detained

a. for the purpose of bringing him before a court in execution of the order of a court ; or
b. upon reasonable suspicion of his having committed, or being about to commit, a
criminal offence under the law of Grenada,
and who is not released, shall be brought without undue delay before a court.

CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

3. Protection of right to personal liberty

5. If any person arrested or detained as mentioned in subsection (3) (b) of this section is not tried within a reasonable time, then, without prejudice to any further proceedings that may be brought against him, he shall be released either unconditionally or upon reasonable conditions, including in particular such conditions as are reasonably necessary to ensure that he appears at a later date for trial or for proceedings preliminary to trial.

BOOK I
General Provisions

PART II
Rules as to Criminal Responsibility

TITLE III
Special Explanations Relating to Certain Offences

23. Definition of and provisions relating to imprisonment

(1) A person imprisons another person if, intentionally and without the other person’s consent, he or she detains the other person in a particular place, of whatever extent or character and whether enclosed or not, or compels him to move or be carried in any particular direction.

(2) This definition is subject to the following provisions, namely, that detention or compulsion may be constituted, within the meaning of this section, either by force or by any physical obstruction to a person’s escape or by causing him to believe
that he or she cannot depart from a place, or refuse to move or be carried in a particular direction, without overcoming force or incurring danger of harm, pain, and annoyance, or by causing him to believe that he or she is under legal arrest or by causing him or her to believe that he or she will immediately be imprisoned if he or she does not consent to do, or to abstain from doing, any act.

''BOOK II Procedure Relating to Summary Offences, PART III Hearing and Subsequent Proceedings, TITLE XIII Hearing and Order, 82. Power of adjournment and proceedings thereon''

(2) Upon any adjournment, the Court may— (a)suffer the defendant to go at large;

(b)commit him or her by warrant or endorsement on an information or warrant either to prison or to such other safe custody as the Court thinks fit:

Provided that no such committal shall be for a longer term than eleven days, the day following that on which the committal is made being counted as the first day; or