February 12, 2020

Camouflage Is Illegal

By Newsroom

Just ahead of the Army Fete, carded for Friday,  the once are warning persons that  wearing camouflage patterns of any colour is against the law and is liable to a fine of TT$200.00

We have a lot of reports that persons are purchasing camouflage material to attend Army Fete which is on Friday coming here,” Supt Wayne Mystar told the TTPS weekly media briefing on Wednesday.

The only persons allowed to wear camouflage are the Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force and certain sections of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. The wearing of Camouflage-colors and patterns- is against the law.

The law is outlined below.

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.

  

Defence Force Act 1962, as amended

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.

Customs Act 1938, as amended

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.

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