They may use their regulatory power to issue binding regulations only as regards that part of the administration of their internal matters through which they implement their territorial self-governing competence under Article 65 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. Entitled persons are guaranteed their fundamental rights and freedoms also as regards legal relations whose subject is an animal. The property which enjoys protection under Article 20 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic includes not only tangible objects, but also the rights and other assets. Depending on the circumstances of legal relationship, an animal may also have the nature of an object of the right to own property guaranteed under Article 20 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. The protection of the right to privacy granted by the Constitution of the Slovak Republic is internally differentiated.
Individual provisions guarantee the protection of privacy in different life situations.
According to Article 16 paragraph 1 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, constitutional protection of privacy is linked with non-violability of persons. The protection thus conceived covers privacy in connection with physical integrity and with tangible assets of private character. The protection of intangible assets of private character is guaranteed under Article 19 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. A generally binding regulation adopted by a municipality does not have the nature of the source of law which would make it possible, in harmony with the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, to authorise interference with private or family life.