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When did the Cayman Islands adopt a constitution providing autonomy over domestic issues?
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The Cayman Islands adopted a constitution providing for autonomy on most domestic issues in 1972.1
Prior to this, the islands had become internally self-governing in July 1959 while a dependency of Jamaica, but they reverted to direct British rule when Jamaica declared independence in 1962. The 1972 constitution was later revised in 1994 and eventually replaced by a new constitution approved by referendum in 2009, which took effect in November of that year.1