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===Bangladesh===

The basic structure doctrine was adopted by the [[Supreme Court of Bangladesh]] in 1989, by expressly relying on the reasoning in the Kesavananda case, in its ruling on ''Anwar Hossain Chowdhary v. Bangladesh'' (41 DLR 1989 App. Div. 165, 1989 BLD (Spl.) 1).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1809/18090950.htm |title=Behind the 'basic structure' doctrine |access-date=2013-12-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220120644/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1809/18090950.htm |archive-date=2010-12-20 }}</ref> However, Bangladesh is the only legal system to introduce this concept through constitutional provisions. Article 7B of the Constitution of Bangladesh Introducedintroduced some parts of it as basic provisions of the constitution and referred to some others (which are not properly defined) as basic structure of the constitution and declares all of these as not amendable.

===Belize===