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British Indian Ocean Territory
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This ordinance sets employer and employee duties for workplace health and safety, gives the Commissioner and Commissioner’s Representative powers over regulations and dispute processes, and requires employer insurance, medical care, and repatriation in some cases.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Ordinance protects designated historic sites and monuments, restricts damage or removal, and lets the Commissioner issue permits, attach conditions, make regulations, and delegate certain permit powers.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Ordinance controls explosives through permits, storage rules, handling precautions, inspection powers, offences, and fines.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Ordinance requires a licence to keep, carry, or use firearms or ammunition, with some exemptions, and gives the Commissioner power to issue, revoke, vary, restrict, and regulate licences.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This provision sets up fisheries control rules, including licensing, gear bans, officer powers, and penalties for fishing-related offences.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance regulates gaming machines by requiring a licence for public premises, giving the Commissioner’s Representative licensing powers, and creating offences and penalties for unlawful use or handling of impounded machines.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Commissioner or Principal Immigration Officer may authorise a group visit to the Territory if a list of the group is submitted, and may set conditions for the deemed permits issued for that visit.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance controls imports and exports in the Territory, allows the Commissioner and customs officers to regulate and inspect goods, and creates offences and penalties for prohibited or non-compliant import/export conduct.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance sets general interpretation rules for laws and subsidiary legislation, including how provisions start, how time is counted, how powers can be delegated, and how penalties are treated.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Ordinance establishes the office of General Counsel, requires the Commissioner to appoint one, and gives the General Counsel and Principal Legal Adviser the title of Law Officer.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance sets up the law revision process for the British Indian Ocean Territory and gives the Law Revision Officer and Commissioner powers and duties for preparing, authenticating, publishing, and correcting revised editions.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This ordinance sets rules for how marriages are solemnised and registered, including notice, witnesses, certificates, fees, and offences for non-compliance.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance restricts controlled drugs, cannabis cultivation, and opium-related conduct, and gives the Commissioner and Police Officers powers to regulate, search, and enforce it.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Ordinance generally prohibits anyone from manufacturing, importing, or exporting controlled substances or products in the Territory unless the Commissioner grants a licence.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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The Ordinance gives UK patent, design, and trade mark rights effect in the Territory, and it preserves certain pre-1984 good-faith or prior-use rights.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This excerpt sets out key definitions, criminal responsibility rules, punishment rules, and treason offences under the Penal Code.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This provision sets out police stop-and-search, search warrant, seizure, and arrest powers, plus record-keeping and some rights for searched or arrested people.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance sets up the Territory’s postal system, gives the Commissioner control powers, and regulates how postal packets, postage, and postal agents must be handled.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance prohibits oil discharges into the Territory’s waters and requires prompt reporting of discharges or escapes to the Commissioner’s Representative.
British Indian Ocean Territory
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This Ordinance lets the Commissioner declare prisons, appoint prison management, and make prison regulations. It also requires prisoners to get basic bedding, food, drink, and exercise time, and allows regulations to create offences with penalties.