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Alphabetic List of Revised Laws

A
Absconding Debtors	8.08
Accessories and Abettors	10.02
Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago	39.06
Administration of Estates	9.01
Administration of Justice (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)	5.34
Adoption of Children	46.03
Advertisements Regulation	35.53
Age of Majority	46.06
Agricultural Contracts	63.50
Agricultural Development Bank	79.07
Agricultural Fires	63.02
Agricultural Small Holdings Tenure	59.53
Agricultural Society	63.01
Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago	49.02
Anatomy	28.06
Animals (Diseases and Importation)	67.02
Antibiotics	30.02
Anti-Doping in Sport	40:56
Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties	78.05
Anti-Personnel Mines	16.03
Anti-Terrorism	12.07
Apportionment	8.06
Arbitration	5.01
Arbitration (Foreign Arbitral Awards)	5.30
Archipelagic Waters and Exclusive Economic Zone	51.06
Architecture Profession	90.02
Asphalt Industry Regulation	87.50
Assisted Secondary School Teachers' Pensions	39.03
Association of Caribbean States (Headquarters)	81.09
Attachment of Earnings (Maintenance)	45.52
Auctioneers	84.03
Auxiliary Fire Service	35.54
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B
Bail	4.60
Bailiffs	4.61
Bankruptcy and Insolvency	9.70
Basel Convention (Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer)	35.49
Beekeeping and Bee Products	67.53
Betting Levy Board	21.53
Bills of Exchange	82.31
Bills of Lading	50.03
Bills of Sale	82.32
Births and Deaths Registration	44.01
Botanic Gardens	41.03
Boxing Control	21.52
Boy Scouts Association	40.70
Brewery	87.52
Bruce Stephens Trust	9.32
Building Societies	33.04
Burial Grounds	30.50
BWIA International Airways Limited (Vesting)	49.04
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C
CAB International (Regional Centre)	39.55
Cadet Force	14.02
Cane-Farmers Rehabilitation Board	64.06
Carenage Pier	51.03
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute	63.04
Caribbean Aviation Training Institute	39.52
Caribbean Community	81.11
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Costa Rica Free Trade	81.10
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Cuba Trade and Economic Co-operation	81.12
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Dominican Republic Free Trade	81.06
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality	82.05
Caribbean Community Development Loans and Guarantee	70.04
Caribbean Court of Justice	4.02
Caribbean Court of Justice (Headquarters)	6.05
Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund	70.08
Caribbean Development Bank	79.05
Caribbean Examinations Council	39.07
Caribbean Examinations Council (Privileges and Immunities)	17.07
Caribbean Fisheries Training and Development Institute	39.53
Caribbean Food Corporation	63.03
Caribbean Industrial Research Institute	85.52
Caribbean Investment Corporation	70.03
Caribbean Investment Fund	70.05
Caribbean Meteorological Organisation	55.01
Caricom Enterprises	81.04
Caroni (1975) Limited and Orange Grove National Company Limited (Divestment)	64.08
Caroni (1975) Limited Vesting	64.07
Carriage of Goods by Sea	50.02
Casual Revenue	74.04
Central Bank	79.02
Central Tenders Board	71.91
Chaguaramas Agreement Special Fund	35.03
Chaguaramas Development Authority	35.02
Children	46.01
Children�s Life Fund	29.01
Children's Authority	46.10
Children's Community Residences, Foster Care and Nurseries	46.04
Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications)	11.18
Cinematograph	20.10
Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies	39.51
Citizenship of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago	1.50
City of San Fernando	25.06
Civil Aviation	49.03
Civil Aviation (Tokyo Convention)	11.21
Civil Service	23.01
Claying of Cocoa	64.22
Cocoa (Import and Export)	64.21
Cohabitational Relationships	45.55
Coinage Offences	11.15
College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago	39.56
Commissioners of Affidavits	6.52
Commissions of Enquiry	19.01
Commonwealth Development Corporation (Privileges and Immunities)	17.05
Commonwealth Secretariat (Privileges and Immunities)	17.02
Community Service Orders	13.06
Companies	81.01
Compensation for Injuries	8.05
Computer Misuse	11.17
Conservation of Wild Life	67.01
Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago	1.01
Constitution (Prescribed Matters)	1.02
Consumer Protection and Safety	82.34
Continental Shelf	1.52
Control of Importation of Live Fish	67.52
Conveyancing and Law of Property	56.01
Co-operative Societies	81.03
Copra Products Control	64.30
Copyright	82.80
Coroners	6.04
Corporal Punishment (Offenders Over Eighteen)	13.04
Corporation Tax	75.02
Council of Legal Education	39.50
Counting Unremunerated Work	19.09
Country Markets	68.02
Court Deposits	7.05
Cremation	30.51
Criminal Injuries Compensation	5.31
Criminal Law	10.04
Criminal Offences	11.01
Criminal Procedure	12.02
Criminal Procedure (Corporations)	12.03
Criminal Procedure (Plea Discussion and Plea Agreement)	13.07
Customs	78.01
Customs Brokers and Customs Clerks	78.03

D
Dangerous Drugs	11.25
Data Protection	22.04
Debtors	8.07
Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage	45.54
Deeds of Arrangement	9.71
Defence	14.01
Demolition of Unsafe Structures	35.55
Dental Profession	29.54
Development Loans	71.04
Diplomatic Agents and Consular Officers (Oaths and Notarial Acts)	17.03
Disasters Measures	16.50
Disposal of Uncleared Goods	51.05
Division of Trinidad	26.01
Dogs	67.54
Dog Control	67.56
Domestic Violence	45.56
Droghers	50.07
Dry River	26.50
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E
Economic Sanctions	81.05
Education	39.01
Elections and Boundaries Commission (Local Government and Tobago House of Assembly)	25.50
Electric Installations (Buildings)	54.71
Electricity (Inspection)	54.72
Electronic Transactions	22.05
Electronic Transfer of Funds Crime	79.51
Emergency Ambulance Services and Emergency Medical Personnel	29.02
Emigration (Children)	18.02
Employment Exchange	88.09
Engineering Profession	90.01
Environmental Management	35.05
Equal Opportunity	22.03
Evidence	7.02
Exchange Control	79.50
Exchequer and Audit	69.01
Excise (General Provisions)	78.50
Expenditure in Advance of Appropriation	69.02
Explosives	16.02
Exportation of Fruit	63.53
External Loans	71.05
Extradition (Commonwealth and Foreign Territories)	12.04
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F
Fair Trading	81.13
Family Law (Guardianship of Minors, Domicile and Maintenance)	46.08
Family Proceedings	46.09
Farmers Advances	63.51
Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs	63.55
Financial Institutions	79.09
Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago	72.01
Firearms	16.01
Fire Service	35.50
Fiscal Incentives	85.01
Fisheries	67.51
Fishing Industry (Assistance)	85.03
Food and Drugs	30.01
Foreign Investment	70.07
Foreign Labour Contracts	88.11
Forests	66.01
Forgery	11.13
Freedom of Information	22.02
Friendly Societies	32.50
Friendly Societies Housing Corporation	33.05
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G
Gambling and Betting	11.19
General Loan and Stock	71.01
General Local Loan	71.02
General Local Loan (Municipal Corporations)	71.60
Geneva Conventions	12.09
Genocide	11.20
Geographical Indications	82.78
Geological Survey	60.02
Girl Guides Association	40.71
Government Savings Bonds	71.41
Government Securities	71.42
Guarantee of Loans (Companies)	71.82
Guarantee of Loans (Statutory Authorities)	71.81
Guarantee of Loans (University of the West Indies)	71.83
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H
Habeas Corpus	8.01
Harbours	50.06
Health Surcharge	75.05
Heritage and Stabilisation Fund	70.09
Highways	48.01
Hijacking	11.22
Hindu Marriage	45.03
Hire Purchase	82.33
Home Mortgage Bank	79.08
Hotel Proprietors	87.55
House of Representatives (Powers and Privileges)	2.02
Housing	33.01
Human Tissue Transplant	28.07
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I
Immigration	18.01
Immigration (Advance Passenger Information)	18.04
Immigration (Caribbean Community Skilled Nationals)	18.03
Income Tax	75.01
Income Tax (In Aid of Industry)	85.04
Independence Development Loans	71.03
Indictable Offences (Preliminary Enquiry)	12.01
Industrial Designs	82.77
Industrial Relations	88.01
Industrial Training	39.54
Infants	46.02
Institute of Marine Affairs	37.01
Insurance	84.01
Integrity in Public Life	22.01
Interception of Communications	15.08
International Child Abduction	12.08
International Criminal Court	4.26
International Financial Organisations	70.01
International Financial Organisations (Inter-American Development Bank)	70.02
International Financial Organisations (Inter-American Investment Corporation)	70.06
International War Crimes Tribunals	11.23
Interpretation	3.01
Interpreters	6.54
Investment Disputes Awards (Enforcement)	5.03
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J
Judges Salaries and Pensions	6.02
Judgments Extension	5.02
Judicial and Legal Service	6.01
Judicial Review	7.08
Jury	6.53
Justice Protection	5.33
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K
Kidnapping	11.26

L
La Brea Jetty and Tramway	51.04
Land Acquisition	58.01
Lands and Buildings Taxes	76.04
Land Surveyors	58.04
Land Tenants (Security of Tenure)	59.54
Larceny	11.12
Law Reform	3.04
Law Reform (Pensions)	23.59
Law Revision	3.03
Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits	82.79
Legal Aid and Advice	7.07
Legal Profession	90.03
Libel and Defamation	11.16
Licensing of Dealers (Precious Metals and Stones)	84.06
Limeoil (Control of Manufacture)	87.56
Limes Export Levy	64.40
Limitation of Certain Actions	7.09
Liquor Licences	84.10
Litter	30.52
Livestock and Livestock Products Board	67.05
Local Authorities Grants and Loans	71.80
Local Savings Banks	79.03
Kidnapping	11.26
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M
Magistrates Protection	6.03
Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement)	45.53
Malaria Abatement	28.50
Malicious Damage	11.06
Management Development Centre	85.51
Marine Areas (Preservation and Enhancement)	37.02
Mariners Club	50.05
Marking of Ships	50.09
Marriage	45.01
Married Persons	45.50
Maternity Protection	45.57
Matrimonial Proceedings and Property	45.51
Maxi-Taxi	48.53
Mediation	5.32
Medical Board	29.50
Mental Health	28.02
Mercantile Law	82.02
Metrology	82.06
Military Training (Prohibition)	15.04
Minerals	61.03
Minimum Wages	88.04
Mining Compensation	61.02
Minister of Finance (Incorporation)	69.03
Miscellaneous Taxes	77.01
Misrepresentation	82.35
Moneylenders	84.04
Mongoose	67.55
Motion Picture Films (Carriage and Storage)	20.11
Motor Launches	50.08
Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic	48.50
Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Enforcement and Administration)	48.52
Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third-Party Risks)	48.51
Municipal Corporations	25.04
Municipal Corporations (Pensions)	25.05
Muslim Marriage and Divorce	45.02
Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters	11.24
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N
Naparima Bowl	40.51
National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation	63.05
National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago	42.01
National Development (Inter-American Development Bank) Loans	71.07
National Development (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) Loans	71.06
National Emblems of Trinidad and Tobago (Regulation)	19.04
National Institute of Higher Education (Research, Science and Technology)	39.58
National Insurance	32.01
National Library and Information Systems	40.01
National Lotteries	21.04
National Museum and Art Gallery	40.52
National Petroleum Company	62.04
National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago	40.53
Negotiable Instruments (Dishonoured Cheques)	79.52
Newspapers	20.01
Notaries Public	6.51
Notification of Births	44.03
Nursing Personnel	29.53
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O
Oaths	7.01
Oaths of Office	7.03
Occupational Safety and Health	88.08
Offences Against the Person	11.08
Old Metal and Marine Stores	84.07
Opticians (Registration)	29.51
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P
Partnership	81.02
Patents	82.76
Patents and Designs	82.83
Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency)	82.84
Pawnbrokers	84.05
Pensions	23.52
Pensions Extension	23.53
Pension Rights (Special Provisions)	23.53
Perjury	11.14
Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals	30.03
Petroleum	62.01
Petroleum Production Levy and Subsidy	62.02
Petroleum Taxes	75.04
Petrotrin Pensions	62.08
Petrotrin Vesting	62.07
Petty Civil Courts	4.21
Pharmacy Board	29.52
Pilotage	51.02
Pipelines	35.51
Plant (Export Prohibition)	63.54
Plant Protection	63.56
Police Complaints Authority	15.05
Police Service	15.01
Port Authority	51.01
Post Office Savings Bank	79.04
Pounds	67.03
Praedial Larceny Prevention	10.03
President's Emoluments	2.50
Prevention of Corruption	11.11
Prevention of Crime (Offensive Weapons)	11.09
Prevention of Crimes	10.01
Prime Minister's Pension	2.51
Princess Elizabeth Home for Handicapped Children Association (Incorporation)	29.04
Prisons	13.01
Prison Service	13.02
Private Hospitals	29.03
Privileges and Immunities (Diplomatic, Consular and International Organisations)	17.01
Probation of Offenders	13.51
Proceeds of Crime	11.27
Production of Cane	64.01
Professions Related to Medicine	90.04
Property Tax	76:04
Protection Against Unfair Competition	82.36
Protection of New Plant Varieties	82.75
Protection of Wrecks	37.04
Protective Services (Compensation)	23.60
Provident Fund	23.57
Provisional Collection of Taxes	74.01
Public Assistance	32.03
Public Health (Nursery Schools and Primary Schools Immunisation)	28.03
Public Holidays and Festivals	19.05
Public Transport Service	48.02
Publications (Legal Deposit)	82.74
Purchase of Certain Rights (HCU)	71.44
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Q
Quarantine	28.05
Queen's Hall	40.50
Queen's Park	41.04
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R
Races	21.51
Rates and Charges Recovery	74.03
Rates, Taxes and Licences (Payment by Cheque)	74.02
Real Property	56.02
Real Property Limitation	56.03
Recording of Court Proceedings	4.31
Recreation Grounds and Pastures	41.01
Recruiting of Workers	88.10
Regional Health Authorities	29.05
Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages	44.02
Registrar General's	19.03
Registration of Business Names	82.85
Registration of Clubs	21.01
Registration of Deeds	19.06
Registration of Local Agents of Foreign Governments or Foreign Enterprises	19.08
Regulated Industries Commission	54.73
Remedies of Creditors	8.09
Remission of Penalties	13.50
Rent Restriction (Dwelling Houses)	59.55
Rent Restriction (Serviced Premises)	59.52
Rent Restriction (Short Tenancies)	59.51
Representation of the People	2.01
Restriction of Offensive Weapons	11.10
Resumption of Land	57.03
Retiring Allowances (Diplomatic Service)	17.04
Retiring Allowances (Legislative Service)	2.03
Retrenchment and Severance Benefits	88.13
Riot	11.05
Rural Pedlars	84.09
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S
Sale of Goods	82.30
Sale of Produce	63.52
San Fernando and Arima Hucksters, Pedlars and Porters	84.08
San Fernando Recreation Ground	41.02
Sawmills	66.02
Schools (Medical Inspection)	28.04
Securities	83.02
Security Assistance (Caricom)	14.05
Sedition	11.04
Senior Citizens' Pension	32.02
Sentencing Commission	4.32
Sexual Offences	11.28
Shipping	50.10
Shop (Hours of Opening and Employment)	84.02
Slum Clearance and Housing	33.02
Special Reserve Police	15.03
Spirits and Spirit Compounds	87.54
Sport and Culture Fund	40.54
Stamp Duty	76.01
Stamp Duty (Special Provisions)	76.03
Standards	82.03
State Grants and Leases (Re-issue)	57.02
State Land (Regularisation of Tenure)	57.05
State Lands	57.01
State Liability and Proceedings	8.02
Statistics	19.02
Status of Children	46.07
Statutes	3.02
Statutory Authorities	24.01
Statutory Declarations	7.04
Strategic Services Agency	15.06
Street Collections (Control)	21.05
Students' Revolving Loan Fund	39.05
Succession	9.02
Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Committee (Incorporation)	64.05
Sugar Industry Special Funds	64.04
Sugar Quotas	64.02
Summary Courts	4.20
Summary Offences	11.02
Supplemental Police	15.02
Supreme Court of Judicature	4.01
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T
Taking of Hostages	12.05
Tax Appeal Board	4.50
Tax Information Exchange Agreements	76.51
Teachers' Pensions	39.02
Teaching Service (Compensation)	39.04
Telecommunications	47.31
Territorial Sea	1.51
Textrin Vesting	62.06
Theatres and Dance Halls	21.03
Three Chains (Tobago)	57.04
Tobacco Control	30.04
Tobago Deeds	19.07
Tobago House of Assembly	25.03
Tourism and Industrial Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited Vesting	87.21
Tourism Development	87.22
Town and Country Planning	35.01
Town and Country Planning (Miscellaneous Licences)	35.04
Towns and Villages (Definition)	26.02
Trade Descriptions	82.04
Trade Disputes and Protection of Property	88.03
Trade Marks	82.81
Trade Unions	88.02
Trafficking in Persons	12.10
Trading with the Enemy	14.03
Transfer of Prisoners	12.06
Transferred Officers' Continuity of Service	23.02
Travelling Allowances	23.50
Treason	11.03
Treasury Bills	71.40
Treasury Bonds	71.43
Treasury Notes	71.39
Trespass	11.07
Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission	54.70
Trinidad and Tobago Free Zones	81.07
Trinidad and Tobago Housing Development Corporation	33.03
Trinidad and Tobago Housing Development Corporation (Vesting)	33.06
Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Orchestra	40.55
Trinidad and Tobago Oil Company Limited Vesting	62.05
Trinidad and Tobago Post	47.01
Trinidad and Tobago Postal Corporation	47.02
Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority	21.50
Trinidad and Tobago Survey	60.01
Truck	88.07
Tuberculosis Control	28.51
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U
Unemployment Levy	75.03
Unfair Contract Terms	82.37
Unit Trust Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago	83.03
University Students (Guarantee Fund)	39.08
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V
Valuation of Land	58.03
Value Added Tax	75.06
Venereal Disease	28.52
Venture Capital	81.08
Veterinary Surgeons (Registration)	67.04
Visiting Forces	14.04
Visiting Police Forces	15.07
Voluntary Termination of Employment	23.03
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W
Water and Sewerage	54.40
Waterworks and Water Conservation	54.41
West Indies Shipping Corporation	50.04
Widows' and Orphans' Pensions	23.54
Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Extension	23.55
Wills and Probate	9.03
Workers' Bank	79.06
Workmen's Compensation	88.05
Workmen's Compensation (Transfer of Funds)	88.06
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Y
Young Offenders Detention	13.05

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There are no revised laws under "Z"

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