Q: What is the law on wearing camouflage clothing in Trinidad and Tobago?
A: It is illegal to wear or import any item of clothing resembling the uniform of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force...
Summary Offences Act 1921, as amended
Summary Offences Act 1921, as amended
98. (1) A person not serving in the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
shall not wear, without the Minister’s permission, the uniform of any member of
that Force, or any dress having the appearance or bearing any of the regimental
or other distinctive marks of any such uniform: This enactment shall not
prevent any person from wearing any uniform or dress in the course of a stage
play performed in a place duly licensed or authorised for the public
performance of stage plays, or in the course of any bona fide military
representation.
(2) Any person who contravenes this section is liable to a fine of two
hundred dollars.
(3) Any person not serving in the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force who
wears, without the Minister’s permission, the uniform of any member of those
Forces, or any dress having the appearance or bearing any of the regimental or
other distinctive marks of any such uniform, in such a manner or under such
circumstances as to be likely to bring contempt upon that uniform, or employs
any other person so to wear that uniform or dress, he shall be liable to a fine
of four hundred dollars.
219. A person, other than a member of the Defence Force, who without
lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him)—
(a) wears the uniform or any portion of the uniforms of a member of the
Defence Force; or
(b) wears any costume or any article of clothing or apparel so closely
resembling the uniform or any portion thereof of a member of the Defence Force,
as may cause such person to be mistaken for a member of the Defence Force, is
liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to
imprisonment for eighteen months.
213. Any person who—
(a) imports or brings or is concerned in importing or bringing into
Trinidad and Tobago any prohibited goods, or any goods the importation of which
is restricted, contrary to such prohibition or restriction, whether the goods
are unloaded or not;
(b) unloads, or assists or is otherwise concerned in unloading any goods
which are prohibited, or any goods which are restricted and are imported
contrary to such restriction;
(c) knowingly harbours, keeps or conceals, or knowingly permits or
suffers, or causes or procures to be harboured, kept or concealed any
prohibited, restricted or un-customed goods;
(d) knowingly acquires possession of or is in any way knowingly
concerned in carrying, removing, depositing, concealing, or in any manner
dealing with any goods with intent to defraud the State of any duties thereon,
or to evade any prohibition or restriction of or applicable to the goods;
(e) is in any way knowingly concerned in any fraudulent evasion or
attempt at evasion of any import or export duties of Customs, or of the laws
and restrictions of the Customs relating to the importation, unloading,
warehousing, delivery, removal, loading and exportation of goods;
(f) sells, offers for sale or exposes for sale any goods which he knows
to be prohibited or restricted, shall, notwithstanding sections 248 and 249,
incur a penalty—
(i) on summary
conviction in the case of a first offence, to a fine of fifty thousand dollars
or treble the value of the goods, whichever is the greater, and to imprisonment
for a term of eight years;
(ii) on summary
conviction in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine of one
hundred thousand dollars or treble the value of the goods, whichever is the
greater, and to imprisonment for a term of fifteen years; and
(iii) on conviction
on indictment, to imprisonment for a term of twenty years.
