(a)
in the interests of defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public
health, town and country planning, the development or utilisation of mineral
resources or the development or utilisation of any other property in such a
manner as to promote the public benefit;
(b)
for the purpose of protecting the rights or freedoms of other persons;
(c)
to enable an officer or agent of the Government or a local authority, or a
body corporate established by law for a public purpose, to enter on the
premises of any person in order to value those premises for the purpose of
any tax, rate or due, or in order to carry out work connected with any
property that is lawfully on those premises and that belongs to the
Government, the local authority or that body corporate, as the case may be;
or
(d)
to authorise, for the purpose of enforcing the judgment or order of a court in
any civil proceedings, the search of any person or property by order of a
court or the entry upon any premises by such order,
except so far as that provision or, as the case may be, the thing done under
its authority is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in a democratic society.
10.
Provisions to secure protection of law
(1)
Where any person is charged with a criminal offence, then, unless the charge is
withdrawn, the case shall be afforded a fair hearing within a reasonable time by an
independent and impartial court established
(2)
Every person who is charged with a criminal offence (a)
shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proved or has pleaded guilty;
(b)
shall be informed as soon as reasonably practicable, in a language that he
understands and, in detail, of the nature of the offence;
(c)
shall be given adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defence;
(d)
shall be permitted to defend himself in person or, at his own expense, by a
legal representative of his own choice or, where so prescribed, by a legal
representative provided at the public expense;
(e)
shall be afforded facilities to examine, in person or by his legal
representative, the witnesses called by the prosecution before any court,
and to obtain the attendance and carry out the examination of witnesses to
testify on his behalf before that court on the same conditions, as those
applying to witnesses called by the prosecution; and
(f)
shall be permitted to have without payment the assistance of an interpreter if
he cannot understand the language used at the trial of the offence, and,
except with his own consent, the trial shall not take place in his absence
unless he so conducts himself as to render the continuance of the