Law of Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda has a Westminster style common law legal system with a written constitution that provides for a parliamentary democracy.

Antigua and Barbuda has a system of judicial review of primary legislation.

Acts of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda are numbered by year, and are usually divided into sections.

All laws that were in effect in the Associated State of Antigua were transferred to the newly independent-Antigua and Barbuda, unless they were incompatible with the Constitution.

[3] According to section 46 of the Constitution, Parliament may make laws for the country.