text: (7) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to 
  
  be inconsistent with or in contravention of this section to the extent that the law in 
  question makes provision whereby persons of any such description as is mentioned in 
  subsection (3) of this section may be subjected to any restriction on the rights and 
  freedoms guaranteed by sections 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of this Constitution, being such a 
  restriction as is authorized by section 9(2), 11(5), 12(2) 13(2), or 14(3), as the case may 
  be. 
  
  (8) Nothing in subsection (2) of this section shall affect any discretion relating to 
  
  the institution, conduct or discontinuance of civil or criminal proceedings in any court that 
  is vested in any person by or under this Constitution or any other law. 
  
  (9) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to 
  
  be inconsistent with the provisions of this section- 
  
  (a) 
  
  if that law was in force immediately before the coming into operation of this 
  Constitution and has continued in force at all times since the coming into 
  operation of this Constitution; or 
  to the extent that the law repeals and re-enacts any provision which has been 
  contained in any written law at all times since immediately before the coming 
  into operation of this Constitution. 
  
  (b) 