Saint Kitts and Nevis

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Constitutional Order of 1983

CHAPTER II
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

Provisions to secure protection of law.

10.- (4) A person shall not be held to be guilty of a criminal offence on account of any act or omission that did not, at the time it took place, constitute such an offence, and no penalty shall be imposed for any criminal offence that is severer in degree or description than the maximum penalty that might have been imposed for that offence at the time when it was committed.

Keywords

Non-retroactivity
Nullum crimen sine lege
Nulla poena sine lege



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