The following document was written and produced by the Constitutional Review Secretariat, a temporary Cayman Islands Government entity established in 2007 to facilitate the constitutional modernisation process that eventually resulted in the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009.
Much of the Constitutional Review Secretariat’s remit included producing educational materials which could translate the legalese of the written constitution for lay-persons, to facilitate public consensus. The following document is one such publication.
Please note that this document was produced as an interpretation of a draft version of the constitution in 2009, before the constitution was finalised. The interpretations provided herein should therefore not be taken as definitive interpretations; rather they are the Constitutional Review Secretariat’s understanding of what the draft constitutional provisions meant, based on the information available at the time.
The document is provided here as a historical resource of the constitutional modernisation process in the Cayman Islands for the 2009 Constitution and is not an authoritative guide produced by the Constitutional Commission.