''CHAPTER II. PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, 10. 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, by competent authority, for that offence.
''CHAPTER VI. THE EXECUTIVE, 75. Prerogative of mercy''
1. The President may
a. grant to any person convicted of any offence a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions;
b. grant to any person a respite, either indefinite or for a specified period, of the execution of any punishment imposed on that person for any offence;
c. substitute a less severe form of punishment for any punishment imposed on any person for any offence; or
d. remit the whole or part of any punishment imposed on any person for an offence or of any penalty or forfeiture otherwise due to the State on account of any offence.
CHAPTER II — PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
10. 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, by competent authority, for that offence.
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;