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§ 2.2.Everyone has the right to life and physical safety. The freedom of the person is unassailable and may be restricted only by law.
§ 3.All men are equal before the law. No one may suffer prejudice because of his or her sex, descent, race, language, native land and extraction, his or her faith or religious convictions.
§ 4.
§ 4.1.A subject of the State is that person who possesses citizenship or acquires it.
§ 4.2.
a)The first citizen is – independent of his citizenship – the Sovereign. He designates his direct heir on the proclamation of this law, later upon taking over supreme power, and also designates at least the next two in line of succession.
b)Should certain heirs or next in line of succession not be able to accept the supreme power because they have died, and should further heirs not have been appointed, the Privy Council decides upon a person as Sovereign. In the case of equal voting, the President of the Privy Council has the casting vote.
c)For the transitional period mentioned in the preamble, until the planned reinstatement of the Sovereign, a Syndic of the Principality of Sealand is elected by the Government, who also shall assume the tasks laid down in the preamble and shall be responsible to the citizens and the Government.
d)This Syndic does not have to be a citizen of Sealand. After his election by the Government he shall be confirmed every two years by the Privy Council by simple majority or replaced by a successor. A preterm deselection by the Privy Council is also an option.
e)The Syndic in his function as the representative of the Sovereign is not subject to § 4, Sections 2a and 2b, § 6b, § 21, Section 5 and § 22, Sections 1 and 2.
§ 4.3.Members of the Privy Council, those entrusted with political assignments, members of the government, chargé d'affaires and members of the diplomatic service are always citizens of the State by reason of their appointment. The withdrawal of their appointer does not end their citizenship.
§ 4.4.Other persons acquire nationality by conferring of this by the Sovereign with consent by the Prime Minister or the Privy Council. An appointed consul will be given preference when laying claim to citizenship.
§ 4.5.Legal persons who prove their seat by an entrance into a special registry as foreseen by the law thereby are citizens of the State.
§ 4.6.Next to the citizenship of Sealand a citizen may have only one further citizenship.
§ 4.7.No citizen may be extradited on demand by another state, unless the Sovereign or the Prime Minister – both in accordance with the Privy Council – agrees.
§ 4.8.A dispossession of nationality is only permissible when as a result the person concerned does not become stateless, except where the Sovereign considers that it is necessary for such dispossession in the best interest of Sealand or any of its citizens.
§ 5.Should for any cause or by reason of any law whatsoever, the State be transferred to another, be united with another state, or be changed into a federation, or be changed for any other reasons of whatever kind, the nationality of Sealand continues to be valid until the possessor of its citizenship accepts the citizenship of another nation.
§ 6.
§ 6.1.The ministers of the country, the President of the High Court, the President of the State Bank, and two further persons called upon by the Sovereign constitute the Privy Council, which is bound under obligation to advise the Sovereign. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is the President of the Privy Council.
§ 6.2.If the Government is dissolved because the Prime Minister steps down for whatever reason, the Privy Council remains in power in the composition extant before the dissolution of the Government until a new Prime Minister is proclaimed. Then a new allocation using this Constitution may proceed.
