CHAPTER I. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
8. Provisions to secure protection of law
6. No person shall be tried for a criminal offence if he shows that he has been pardoned for that offence.
CHAPTER IV. THE EXECUTIVE
72. Prerogative of mercy
1. The Governor-General may, in Her Majesty’s name and on Her Majesty’s behalf-
a. grant a pardon, either free of subject to lawful conditions, to any person convicted of any offence ;
''TITLE XI, Miscellaneous Matters, Pardon, 66. Provisions relating to pardon''
(2) Where either a free or conditional pardon is granted, the discharge of the offender, 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 as a pardon has in the like cases under the great seal.
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;