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CHAPTER 2 FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ยง 1. Freedoms Article 2 1. Every person has a right to life. This right is protected by national ordinance. No one shall be deprived of life arbitrarily. 2. A sentence of death may not be imposed. Article 3 No one may be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or humiliating treatment or punishment. Article 4 1. No one may be held in slavery or servitude. 2. No one may undertake hard labour or forced labour, otherwise than in the form of community service. 3. Trafficking of people is prohibited. Article 5 1. Everyone shall have the right to respect for his personal privacy, subject to such restrictions as may be imposed under or by virtue of national ordinances. 2. Rules shall be imposed under or by virtue of national ordinances to protect personal privacy in connection with the recording and dissemination of personal information. Such information must be processed fairly, for specified purposes and with the permission of the person to whom it relates, or else on some other justified basis provided for by national ordinance. 3. Rules shall be imposed under or by virtue of national ordinances in connection with claims by individuals for disclosure of the information recorded in relation to them and the use made thereof, as well as for the correction of such information. Article 6 Everyone shall have the right to inviolability of his person, subject to such restrictions as may be imposed under or by virtue of national ordinances. Article 7 1. Entry into a home without the permission of the occupant shall only be authorised in such cases as are specified by national ordinance and by those designated for that purpose by national ordinance. 2. Prior identification and notice of the purpose of entry is required in order to enter a home in terms of paragraph 1, subject to the exceptions prescribed by national ordinance. 3. A written report of the entry shall be issued to the occupant within 48 hours after the entry. If the entry was effected in the interests of national security or criminal proceedings, the issue of the report may be deferred in terms of rules to be set out by national ordinance. A report need not be issued in cases, specified in terms of national ordinance, if the interests of national security would never be served by issuing the report.

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