The Overseas Territories (Zimbabwe) (Restrictive Measures) Order 2002

Article 1(2)(a)

SCHEDULE 1 TERRITORIES TO WHICH THIS ORDER EXTENDS

• Anguilla

• British Antarctic Territory

• British Indian Ocean Territory

• Cayman Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Montserrat

• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

• St. Helena

• St. Helena Dependencies

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

• Virgin Islands

Article 1(2)(b)

SCHEDULE 2 APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 19 TO THE SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS OF AKROTIRI AND DHEKELIA IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS

1.—(1) Any person who commits an offence under article 3, 5, 6(3), 7, 8(9) or 9, or paragraph 5(b) or (d) of Schedule 5, shall be liable on conviction:

(a) if tried on information before the Senior Judge’s Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both;

(b) if tried before the Judge’s Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.

2.  Any person who commits an offence under article 12(1) or (2), 13(3), or 17(3)(b)(ii) is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.

3.  Any person who commits an offence under article 17(3)(a), (b)(i) or (c), or paragraph (5)(a) or (c) of Schedule 5, is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or to both.

4.  Any person who commits an offence under article 8(10) or 10 is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent, or both.

5.  Any person who commits an offence under article 11 or 13(2) is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £5,000 or its equivalent.

6.  Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this Order, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

7.  Proceedings for a misdemeanour under this Order, being an offence alleged to have been committed outside the Territory, may be instituted at any time not later than 12 months from the date on which the person charged first enters the Territory after committing the offence.

8.  Proceedings against any person for an offence under this Order may be taken before the appropriate court in the Territory having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.

9.  No proceedings for an offence under this Order shall be instituted in the Territory except by or with the consent of the principal public officer of the Territory having responsibility for criminal prosecutions:

Provided that this paragraph shall not prevent the arrest, or the issue or execution of a warrant for the arrest, of any person in respect of such an offence, or the remand in custody or on bail of any person charged with such an offence, notwithstanding that the necessary consent to the institution of proceedings for the offence has not been obtained.

Article 2(1)

SCHEDULE 3 EQUIPMENT THAT MIGHT BE USED FOR INTERNAL REPRESSION

• Helmets providing ballistic protection, anti-riot helmets, anti-riot shields and ballistic shields and specially designed components therefor.

• Specially designed fingerprint equipment.

• Power controlled searchlights.

• Construction equipment provided with ballistic protection.

• Hunting knives.

• Specially designed production equipment to make shotguns.

• Ammunition hand-loading equipment.

• Communications intercept devices.

• Solid-state optical detectors.

• Image-intensifier tubes.

• Telescopic weapon sights.

• Smooth-bore weapons and related ammunition, other than those specially designed for military use, and specially designed components therefor; except:

1.  signal pistols;

2.  air- and cartridge-powered guns designed as industrial tools or humane animal stunners.

• Simulators for training in the use of firearms and specially designed or modified components and accessories therefor.

• Bombs and grenades, other than those specially designed for military use, and specially designed components therefor.

• Body armour, other than those manufactured to military standards or specifications, and specially designed components therefor.

• All-wheel-drive utility vehicles capable of off-road use that have been manufactured or fitted with ballistic protection, and profiled armour for such vehicles.

• Water cannon and specially designed or modified components therefor.

• Vehicles equipped with a water cannon.

• Vehicles specially designed or modified to be electrified to repel boarders and components therefor specially designed or modified for that purpose.

• Acoustic devices represented by the manufacturer or supplier as suitable for riot-control purposes, and specially designed components therefor.

• Leg-irons, gang-chains, shackles and electric-shock belts, specially designed for restraining human beings; except:

  • handcuffs for which the maximum overall dimension including chain does not exceed 240 mm when locked.

• Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an incapacitating substance (such as tear gas or pepper sprays), and specially designed components therefor.

• Portable devices designed or modified for the purpose of riot control or self-protection by the administration of an electric-shock, (including electric-shock batons, electric-shock shields, stun guns and electric shock dart guns (tasers)) and components therefor specially designed or modified for that purpose.

• Electronic equipment capable of detecting concealed explosives and specially designed components therefor; except:

  • TV or X-ray inspection equipment.

• Electronic jamming equipment specially designed to prevent the detonation by radio remote control of improvised devices and specially designed components therefor.

• Equipment and devices specially designed to initiate explosions by electrical or non-electrical means, including firing sets, detonators, igniters, boosters and detonating cord, and specially designed components therefor; except:

  • those specially designed for a specific commercial use consisting of the actuation or operation by explosive means of other equipment or devices the function of which is not the creation of explosions (e.g., car air-bag inflaters, electric-surge arresters of fire sprinkler actuators).

• Equipment and devices designed for explosive ordnance disposal; except:

1.  bomb blankets;

2.  containers designed for folding objects known to be, or suspected of being improvised explosive devices.

Night vision and thermal imaging equipment and image intensifier tubes or solid state sensors therefor.

Software specially designed and technology required for all listed items.

Linear cutting explosive charges.

Explosives and related substances as follows:

• amatol,

• nitrocellulose (containing more than 12,5% nitrogen),

• nitroglycol,

• pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN)

• picryl chloride,

• tinitorphenylmethylnitramine (tetryl),

• 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT)

Software specially designed and technology required for all listed items.

Articles 6, 7, 8 and 10

SCHEDULE 4 LIST OF PERSONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 6, 7, 8 and 10

1.	MUGABE Robert Gabriel	President, born 21.2.1924, Kutama
2.	UTETE Charles	Cabinet Secretary, born 30.10.1938
3.	MNANGAGWA Emmerson	Parliamentary Speaker, born 15.9.1946
4.	NKOMO John	Home Affairs Minister, born 22.8.1934
5.	GOCHE Nicholas	Security Minister, born 1.8.1946
6.	MANYIKA Elliot	Youth Minister, born 30.7.1955
7.	MOYO Jonathan	Information Minister, born 12.1.1957
8.	CHARAMBA George	Information Minister’s Permanent Secretary and Spokesman
9.	CHINAMASA Patrick	Justice Minister, born 25.1.1947
10.	MADE Joseph	Agricultural Minister, born 21.11.1954
11.	CHOMBO Ignatius	Local Govt Minister, born 1.8.1952
12.	MUDENGE Stan	Foreign Minister, born 17.12.1941, Zimutu Reserve
13.	CHIWEWE Willard	Ministry of Foreign Affairs Senior Secretary, born 19.3.1949
14.	ZVINAVASHE Vitalis	General (CDS), born 1943
15.	CHIWENGA Constantine	Lt Gen (Army), born 25.8.1956
16.	SHIRI Perence	Air Marshal (Air Force), born 1.11.1955
17.	CHIHURI Augustine	Commissioner (Police), born 10.3.1953
18.	MUZONZINI Elisha	Brig. (Intelligence), born 24.6.1957
19.	ZIMONTE Paradzi	Prisons Chief
20.	SEKERAMAYI Sidney	Defence Minister, born 30.3.1944

Article 18

SCHEDULE 5 EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION

1.—(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order, or any provision of any other law, the Governor may request any person in or resident in the Territory to furnish to him any information in his possession or control, or to produce to him any document in his possession or control, which he may require for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order; and any person to whom such a request is made shall comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the request.

(2) Nothing in the foregoing sub-paragraph shall be taken to require any person who has acted as counsel or solicitor for any person to furnish or produce any privileged information or document in his possession in that capacity.

(3) Where a person is convicted of failing to furnish information or produce a document when requested so to do under this paragraph, the court may make an order requiring him, within such period as may be specified in the order, to furnish the information or produce the document.

(4) The power conferred by this paragraph to request any person to produce documents shall include power to take copies of or extracts from any document so produced and to request that person, or, where that person is a body corporate, any other person who is a present or past officer of, or is employed by, the body corporate, to provide an explanation of any of them.

(5) The furnishing of any information or the production of any document under this paragraph shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.

2.—(1) If any justice of the peace or magistrate is satisfied by information on oath given by any police officer, constable or person authorised by the Governor to act for the purposes of this paragraph either generally or in a particular case:

(a) that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Order or, with respect to any of the matters regulated by this Order, an offence under any enactment relating to customs, has been or is being committed and that evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found on any premises specified in the information, or in any vehicle, ship or aircraft so specified, or

(b) that any documents which ought to have been produced under paragraph 1 of this Schedule and have not been produced are to be found on any such premises or in any such vehicle, ship or aircraft,

he may grant a search warrant authorising any police officer or constable, together with any other persons named in the warrant and any other police officers or constables, to enter the premises specified in the information or, as the case may be, any premises upon which the vehicle, ship or aircraft so specified may be, at any time within one month from the date of the warrant and to search the premises, or as the case may be, the vehicle, ship or aircraft.

(2) Any authorised person who has entered any premises or any vehicle, ship or aircraft in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above may do any or all of the following things:

(a) inspect and search those premises or the vehicle, ship or aircraft for any material which he has reasonable grounds to believe may be evidence in relation to an offence referred to in this paragraph;

(b) seize anything on the premises or on the vehicle, ship or aircraft which he has reasonable grounds for believing is evidence in relation to an offence referred to in this paragraph;

(c) seize anything on the premises or on the vehicle, ship or aircraft which he has reasonable grounds to believe are required to be produced in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Schedule; or

(d) seize anything that is necessary to be seized in order to prevent it being concealed, lost, damaged, altered or destroyed.

(3) Any information required in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) above which is contained in a computer and is accessible from the premises or from any vehicle, ship or aircraft must be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible.

(4) A police officer or constable lawfully on the premises or on the vehicle, ship or aircraft by virtue of a warrant issued under sub-paragraph (1) above may—

(a) search any person whom he has reasonable grounds to believe may be in the act of committing an offence referred to in this paragraph; and

(b) seize anything he finds in a search referred to in paragraph (a) above, if he has reasonable grounds for believing that it is evidence of an offence referred to in this paragraph:

Provided that no person shall be searched in pursuance of this sub-paragraph except by a person of the same sex.

(5) Where, by virtue of this paragraph a person is empowered to enter any premises, vehicle, ship or aircraft he may use such force as is reasonably necessary for that purpose.

(6) Any documents or articles of which possession is taken under this paragraph may be retained for a period of three months or, if within that period there are commenced any proceedings for such an offence as aforesaid to which they are relevant, until the conclusion of those proceedings.

3.  A person authorised by the Governor to exercise any power for the purposes of this Schedule shall, if requested to do so, produce evidence of his authority before exercising that power.

4.  No information furnished or document produced (including any copy of an extract made of any document produced) by a person in pursuance of a request made under this Schedule and no document seized under paragraph 2(2) above shall be disclosed except—

(a) with the consent of the person by whom the information was furnished or the document was produced or the person from whom the document was seized: provided that a person who has obtained information or is in the possession of a document only in his capacity as servant or agent of another person may not give consent for the purposes of this sub-paragraph but such consent may instead be given by any person who is entitled to that information or to the possession of that document in his own right;

(b) to any person who would have been empowered under this Schedule to request that it be furnished or produced, or to any person holding or acting in any office under or in the service of—

(i) the Crown in respect of the Government of the United Kingdom,

(ii) the Government of the Isle of Man,

(iii) the States of Guernsey or Alderney or the Chief Pleas of Sark,

(iv) the States of Jersey, or

(v) the Government of any territory to which this Order extends; or

(c) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings—

(i) in the Territory, for an offence under this Order or, with respect to any of the matters regulated by this Order, for an offence under any enactment relating to customs, or

(ii) for any offence under any law making provision with respect to such matters that is in force in the United Kingdom, any of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any territory to which this Order extends.

5.  Any person who—

(a) without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails within the time and in the manner specified (or, if no time has been specified, within a reasonable time) to comply with any request made under this Schedule by any person who is empowered to make it; or

(b) furnishes any information or produces any document which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular to such a person in response to such a request; or

(c) otherwise wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this Schedule; or

(d) with intent to evade the provisions of this Schedule, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes or removes any document,

shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.