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Accident (Compensation Reform) CAP193A
Accidental Fires CAP194
Accidents and Occupational Disease (Notification) CAP338
Administration Appeal Tribunal CAP109A
Administration Justice CAP109B
Administration of Estates (Jurisdiction and Procedure) CAP242
Adoption CAP212
Agricultural Aids CAP252
Agricultural Credit Bank ( Transfer of Assets) CAP321
Agricultural Development Fund CAP252B
Agricultural Holdings (Options to Purchase ) CAP221
Agricultural, Diagnostic and Others Services (Fees) CAP252A
Airport Service Charge CAP059
Airports (Fuel Charges) CAP058A
Airports CAP285A
Aliens CAP185
Anglican Church CAP375
Animals (Civil Liability) CAP194A
Animals (Diseases and Importation) CAP253
Anti-Terrorism CAP158
Arbitration (Foreign Arbitral Awards) CAP110A
Arbitration CAP110
Architects Registration CAP366
Archives CAP019B
Arts and Sport Promotion Fund CAP039
Bail CAP122A
Bankruptcy and Insolvency CAP303
Barbados Accreditation Council CAP038A
Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation CAP254
Barbados Agricultural Management Co. Ltd. (Sugar Bonds Guarantee) CAP255
Barbados Bar Association CAP363
Barbados Boy Scouts Association (Incorporation) CAP376A
Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry CAP376B
Barbados Citizenship CAP186
Barbados Community College CAP038
Barbados Foreign Sales Corporation CAP059C
Barbados Independence Act & Order, 1966
Barbados International Business Promotion Corporation CAP340A
Barbados Investment and Development Corporation CAP340
Barbados National Bank (Transfer and Vesting of Assets) CAP322A
Barbados Pharmaceutical Society CAP365
Barbados Port Inc. (Transfer of Management and Vesting of Assets) CAP285B
Barbados Registered Nurses Association CAP364
Barbados Territorial Waters CAP386
Barbados Tourism Authority CAP342
Barbados Tourism Investment Corporation CAP332A
Barbados Water Authority CAP274A
Better Security CAP160
Betting and Gaming CAP134A
Betting and Gaming Duties CAP060
Bills of Exchange CAP304
Bills of Lading CAP305
Bills of Sale CAP306
Brewery CAP326
Bridgetown Sewerage Project (Exemption from Duties) CAP061
Broadcasting CAP274B
Building Societies CAP377
Canada West Indies Reciprocity (Tariff) Agreement CAP014
Cane Fires (Prevention) CAP123
Caribbean (Caricom Enterprises) CAP014B
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute CAP014A
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation CAP276
Caribbean Community (Movement of Skilled Nationals) CAP186A
Caribbean Community CAP015
Caribbean Community Loans Guarantee CAP093A
Caribbean Court of Justice CAP117
Caribbean Development Bank CAP323A
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency CAP157A
Caribbean Examinations Council (Examinations) CAP039A
Caribbean Examinations Council (Incorporation) CAP039B
Caribbean Financial Services Corporation CAP093B
Caribbean Food Corporation CAP015B
Caribbean Investment Corporation CAP015A
Caribbean Investment Fund CAP322
Caribbean Meteorological Council (Incorporation) CAP276A
Caribbean Meteorological Organisation (Incorporation) CAP015C
Caribbean Shipping Agreement CAP016
Carriage of Goods by Sea CAP307
Carters and Porters CAP288
Casual Employees Pensions CAP020
Catastrophe Fund CAP039D
Caves CAP389
Cemeteries CAP039C
Centennial Honour CAP400
Central Bank of Barbados CAP323C
Change of Name CAP212A
Charities CAP243
Chattel Buildings Security CAP224
Chief Marshall CAP111
Child Care Board CAP381
Cinematograph (British Films) CAP298
Civil Aviation (Montreal Convention) CAP123A
Civil Aviation (Tokyo Convention) CAP123B
Civil Aviation CAP288B
Civil Liability (Contribution) CAP194B
Co-operative Societies CAP378A
Coastal Zone Management CAP394
Codrington Trust CAP244
Coinage Offences CAP124
Commercial Travellers and Transient Traders CAP175
Commissioners of Probates CAP120
Commissions of Inquiry CAP112
Commonwealth Countries CAP016A
Community Legal Services CAP112A
Companies CAP308
Computer Misuse CAP124B
Condominium CAP224A
Constituency Councils CAP004
Constitution (Amendment) Act, 1974
Constitution of Barbados
Consular Conventions CAP017
Consular and Notarial Services Fees CAP013B
Consumer Guarantees CAP326E
Consumer Protection CAP326D
Contributory Negligence CAP195
Control of Boxing CAP176
Control of Offensive Weapons CAP124A
Convention (Prevention of Apartheid in Sports) CAP017B
Copyright CAP300
Coroners CAP113
Corporal Punishment CAP125
Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property CAP021A
Corporate Bodies Contracts CAP196
Cotton Expert Levy CAP258
Council of Legal Education CAP366A
Counterfeit Currency (Convention) CAP064
Court Process CAP111A
Cremation CAP040
Cricket Legends of Barbados Inc. CAP378
Criminal Appeal CAP113A
Criminal Damage CAP113B
Criminal Law (Arrestable Offences) CAP125A
Criminal Procedure CAP127
Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) CAP127A
Crown Lands (Vesting and Disposal) CAP225
Crown Proceedings CAP197
Cultivation of Trees CAP390
Customs CAP066
Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) CAP067
Dairy Industry (Regulation and Control) CAP260
Debtors CAP198
Deep Water Harbour (Expansion and Improvement) (Exemption from Duties) CAP067A
Defamation CAP199
Defence CAP159
Demonetisation CAP068
Dental Registration CAP367
Deposit Insurance CAP323
Development (Canadian Loan) (Airport Development) CAP094C
Development (Canadian Loan) (Dairy Development Project) CAP094
Development (Canadian Loan) (Land Mapping and Registry) CAP093C
Development (Canadian Loan) (Petroleum Development) CAP093D
Development (Canadian Loan) (Sugar Industry) CAP094B
Development (Canadian Loan) (Water Development) CAP094A
Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges CAP018
Displaced Workers Allowances (Bridgetown Harbour) CAP343
District Auctioneers CAP114
Diving for Goods CAP130
Dogs (Licensing and Control) CAP177
Domestic Employees CAP344
Domestic Violence (Protection Order) CAP130A
Domicile Reform CAP213
Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) CAP131
Drug Service CAP040A
Duties, Taxes and Others Payments (Exemption) CAP067B
Education CAP041
Election Offences and Controversies CAP003
Electric Light and Power CAP278
Electrical Wiremen (Licensing) CAP368A
Electricity CAP277
Electronic Transactions CAP308B
Emergency Management CAP160A
Emergency Powers CAP161
Emigration CAP187
Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) CAP346
Employment Exchanges CAP345
Employment of Women (Maternity Leave) CAP345A
Engineers (Registration) CAP368B
Enviromental Levy CAP070
Estate (Duty Waiver) CAP065
Evidence (Proceedings in Order Jurisdictions) CAP121A
Evidence CAP121
Exchange Control CAP071
Excise Tax CAP069
Exempt Insurance CAP308A
Expatriate Pensions CAP022
Explosives CAP162
Export Promotion and Marketing Fund CAP346A
Exportation of Fruit CAP333
Expulsion of Undesirables CAP188
External Loans CAP094D
Extradition CAP189
Factories CAP347
Fair Competition CAP326C
Fair Trading Commission CAP326B
Family Law CAP214
Fertilisers and Feeding Stuff CAP261
Films CAP299
Financial Administration (Public Enterprise Investment Fund) CAP5A
Financial Institutions CAP324A
Financial Management and Audit CAP5
Fire Enquiry CAP115
Fire Service CAP163
Firearms CAP179
Fireworks CAP164
Fiscal Incentives CAP71A
Fisheries
Food and Drugs Adulteration CAP327
Forcible and Clandestine Entries CAP132
Foreign Incursions and Mercenaries CAP174
Foreign and Commonwealth Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement)
Forensic Procedures and DNA Identification CAP121B
Forgery CAP133
Franchises (Registration and Control) CAP179A
Free Trade Area (Agreement Establishing the Free Area Between the Caribbean Community and the Government of the Republic of Coasta Rica) CAP332
Free Trade Area (Agreement Establishing the Free Trade Area between the Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic) CAP334
Friendly Societies CAP379
Frustrated Contracts CAP202
Fuel Oil CAP164A
Gambling CAP134
Gaming CAP135
Gaugers CAP369
General Loan and Stock CAP095
Geneva Conventions CAP017A
Genocide CAP133A
Geographical Indications CAP320
Girl Guides Association of Barbados (Incorporation) CAP379A
Gold Award Achievement CAP401
Government Securities CAP097
Governor-General (Conditions of Service) CAP006
Grantley Adams International Airport (Transfer of Management and Vesting of Assets) CAP286
Grants-in-Aid (Churches) CAP376
Guarantee of Loans (Companies) CAP096
Health Services CAP044
Highways CAP289
Hijacking CAP135A
Hire Purchase CAP328
Hire-Purchase, Credit-Sale and Hire-Control CAP328A
Holidays with Pay CAP348
Hotel Proprietors CAP309
Housing CAP226
Housing Incentives CAP226A
ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 (Guarantee) CAP099
Immigration CAP190
Importation of Textiles (Quotas) CAP336
Income Tax CAP073
Indictments CAP136
Industrial Designs CAP309A
Industrial Development (Export Industries) CAP074
Industrial Incentives (Factory Construction) CAP076
Industrial Incentives CAP075
Industrial and Provident Societies CAP380
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados CAP369A
Insurance CAP310
Insurance Corporation of Barbados (Transfer and Vesting of Assets) CAP311
Integrated Circuits CAP320A
Inter-American Development Bank CAP323B
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Membership of Barbados) CAP323D
International Business Companies CAP077
International Commercial Arbitration CAP110B
International Development Association (Membership of Barbados) CAP323E
International Finance Corporation CAP324
International Monetary Fund CAP018A
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CAP262
International Trusts CAP245
Internationally Protected Persons CAP019
Interpretation CAP001
Irrigation CAP263
Itinerant Salesman (Licensing) CAP180
Judges Remuneration and Pensions CAP115A
Judicial Sale of Land CAP227
Juries CAP115B
Juvenile Offenders CAP138
LIAT (1974) Limited (Guarantee of Interest) CAP289A
LIAT (1974) Limited (Guarantee) CAP289B
Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) CAP349
Labour Department CAP023
Land (Adjudication of Rights and Interests) CAP228A
Land (Title Deeds Restoration) CAP229C
Land Acquisition CAP228
Land Boundaries CAP228B
Land Development Duty CAP078
Land Registration CAP229
Land Surveyors CAP370
Land Tax CAP078A
Land Tax Validation CAP078B
Land Valuation CAP229A
Land Valuation and Land Tax (Validation) CAP229B
Landlord and Tenant (Registration of Tenancies) CAP230A
Landlord and Tenant CAP230
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) CAP205
Law Revision CAP002
Legal Profession CAP370A
Limitation (Public Authorities) CAP206
Limitation and Prescription CAP232
Limitation of Actions CAP231
Limitation of Remedies (Scientific and Research Projects) CAP207
Limited Partnerships CAP312
Liner Conferences CAP290
Liquor Licences CAP182
Livestock (Control of Strays) CAP139A
Loans (Caribbean Development Bank) CAP097A
Loans (Inter-American Development Bank) CAP097B
Local Loans CAP098
Magistrate's Courts CAP116A
Maintenance CAP216
Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) CAP217
Malicious Injury to Property CAP140
Marine Boundaries and Jurisdiction CAP387
Marine Insurance CAP292
Marine Pollution Control CAP392A
Maritime International Co-operation CAP013C
Markets and Slaughter-houses CAP265
Marriage CAP218A
Married Women CAP219
Medical Registration CAP371
Medical Termination of Pregnancy CAP044A
Mental Health CAP045
Mercenaries (Convention) CAP174A
Mines Regulations CAP350
Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries (Remuneration and Allowances) CAP008
Minor Offences CAP137
Minors CAP215
Miscellaneous Controls CAP329
Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (Prevention and Control) CAP129
Mortgage Insurance CAP233
Motor Omnibus Terminals CAP293
Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters CAP140A
Mutual Funds CAP320B
National Art Gallery CAP048B
National Assistance CAP048
National Conservation Commission CAP393
National Council on Substance Abuse CAP046
National Cultural Foundation CAP380B
National Emblems and National Anthem of Barbados (Regulation) CAP300A
National Housing Corporation (Vesting of Property) CAP233B
National Insurance and Social Security CAP047
National Petroleum Corporation CAP280
National Productivity Council CAP350A
National Sports Council CAP048A
National Union of Public Workers (Guarantee of Loan) CAP100
Natural Gas Corporation (Transfer of Functions) CAP279
Naval Discipline CAP165
Nurses CAP372
Occupational Pension Benefits CAP350B
Occupational Training CAP042
Occupiers Liability CAP208
Offences Against the Person CAP141
Official Secrets Act, 1911 & 1920
Offshore Petroleum (Taxation) CAP080
Offshore Petroleum CAP282A
Old Metal Dealers CAP183
Ombudsman CAP008A
Omnibus and Carriages CAP294
Order of National Heroes CAP399
Orders-in-Council (Amendment and Revocation) CAP002A
Overseas Service Agreement CAP024
Paramedical Professions CAP372C
Parish Boundaries CAP108
Parish Constables CAP166
Parliament (Administration) CAP010
Parliament (Privileges, Immunities and Powers) CAP009
Partnership CAP313
Passports and Travel Documents (Fees) CAP081
Patents CAP314
Pawnbrokers CAP315
Penal System Reform CAP139
Pensions (Prime Minister) CAP011
Pensions (Transferred Federal Officers) CAP026
Pensions CAP025
Perjury CAP142
Pesticides Control CAP395
Petroleum Winning Operation CAP281
Petroleum Winning Operation Taxation CAP082
Pharmacy CAP372D
Pierhead Development CAP394A
Pioneer Industries CAP083
Plant Pest and Disease (Eradication) CAP266A
Plant Protection CAP268
Police CAP167
Police Complaints Authority CAP167A
Port St. Charles Development CAP234
Post Office CAP027A
Praedial Larceny Prevention CAP142A
Prevention of Corruption CAP144
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals CAP144A
Prevention of Cruelty to Children CAP145
Prevention of Floods CAP235
Princess Royal Scholarship CAP049
Printers and Publishers CAP301
Prisons CAP168
Private Investigators and Security Guards CAP372E
Probates and Letters of Administration (Resealing) CAP247
Probation of Offenders CAP146
Proceeds of Crime CAP143
Profession, Trade and Business Registration CAP373
Promissory Oaths CAP028
Property CAP236
Property Transfer Tax CAP084A
Protection Against Unfair Competition CAP329A
Protection of Children CAP146A
Protection of New Plant Varieties CAP267
Protection of Wages CAP351
Protection of the Olympic Symbol CAP315A
Provisional Collection of Taxes CAP085
Public Accounts Committee CAP010A
Public Documents (Exemption from Diplomatic or Consular Legislation) CAP122
Public Employees Pensions CAP030
Public Entertainments CAP085A
Public Holidays CAP352
Public Library CAP052
Public Loans (Supplementary Sinking Fund) CAP104
Public Officers Loan and Travelling Allowances CAP031
Public Order CAP168A
Public Service (Restoration of Emoluments) CAP031A
Public Service CAP029
Public Trustee CAP248
Public Works CAP032
Public Workship (Disturbance) CAP147
Publications (Legal Deposit) CAP301A
Quarantine CAP053
Quarries CAP353
Queen Elizabeth Hospital CAP054
Radiation Protection CAP353A
Rate of Interest CAP316
Recruiting of Workers CAP354
Referendum CAP011A
Reformatory and Industrial Schools CAP169
Regional Security System CAP174B
Registered Sugar Factories Smoke Control CAP355
Registration Office CAP033
Registration of Business Names CAP317
Registration of Judgments CAP210
Registration of Newspapers CAP302
Remission of Penalties CAP170
Repatriation CAP291
Repatriation of Prisoners CAP168B
Representation of the People CAP012
Retail Sales Tax CAP086
Retiring Allowances (Legislative Service) CAP012A
Returnable Containers CAP395A
Riots (Prevention) CAP171
Road Abandonment CAP294A
Road Alteration (Shepherd Street) CAP294B
Road Traffic CAP295
Roman Catholic Bishop of Bridgetown CAP375A
Rural Development Commission CAP238
Safety and Health at Work CAP356
Sale of Cotton CAP149
Sale of Goods CAP318
Sale of Old Metals CAP150
Sale of Poisons CAP151
Sale of Tobacco CAP152
Sanitation Service Authority CAP382
Savings Bonds CAP104A
Scotland District Authority CAP395B
Securities CAP318A
Security Assistance (Caricom Member States) CAP174C
Security of Tenure of Small Holdings CAP237
Senate (Disputed Appointments and Disputed Vacancies) CAP013
Senate and House of Assembly (Remuneration and Allowances of Members) CAP013A
Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) CAP153
Serial Bonds CAP104B
Service Commissions CAP034
Severance Payments CAP355A
Sexual Offences CAP154
Shipping (Incentives) CAP090A
Shipping (Oil Pollution) CAP296A
Shipping CAP296
Shipping Corporations CAP296B
Shops CAP356A
Small Business Development CAP318C
Social Investment Fund CAP050
Societies With Restricted Liability CAP318B
Soil Conservation (Scotland District) CAP396
Solicitor General (Statutory Functions) CAP034A
Special Development Areas CAP237A
Special Loans CAP105
Spirits CAP090B
St. John Ambulance Association of Barbados (Incorporation) CAP380C
St. Joseph Hospital CAP054B
Stamp Duty CAP091
Standards CAP326A
Statistics CAP192
Status of Children Reform CAP220
Statute of Frauds CAP211
Statutory Boards (Pensions) CAP384
Statutory Boards Casual Employees (Pensions) CAP383
Storage of Petroleum CAP172
Student Revolving Loan Fund CAP054A
Succession CAP249
Sugar Import Levy CAP271
Sugar Industry (Support Price) CAP268A
Sugar Industry CAP270
Sugar Workers (Minimum Wage and Guaranteed Employment) CAP359
Supreme Court of Judicature CAP117A
Swine Fever CAP273
Tax on Remittances CAP091A
Teachers (Secondary Schools) Pensions CAP056
Teachers Pensions CAP055
Technical Assistance (Taxation Relief) CAP092
Technical and Vocational Education and Training Council CAP043
Telecommunications CAP282B
Tenantries Control CAP239
Tenantries Development CAP239A
Tenantries Freehold Purchase CAP239B
Theft CAP155
Therapeutic Substances CAP330
Tourism Development CAP341
Town and Country Planning CAP240
Trade Disputes (Arbitration and Enquiry) CAP360
Trade Marks CAP319
Trade Unions CAP361
Trade and Economic Co-operation (Agreement between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Government of the Republic of Cuba) CAP337
Trade, Economic and Technical Agreement (Agreement between the Caribbean Community and the Government of the Republic of Colombia) CAP335
Trading with the Enemy CAP173
Trafalgar Square (Change of Name) CAP241A
Transport Authority CAP295A
Transport Board CAP297
Travel Services CAP373A
Treason CAP155A
Treasury Bills and Tax Certificates CAP106
Treepass to Property (Reform) CAP155B
Trees (Preservation) CAP397
Trustee CAP250
Unclaimed and Undistributed Moneys CAP093
Underground Water Control CAP283
University of the West Indies (Guarantee of Bonds) CAP106A
University of the West Indies (Guarantee of Loans) CAP106B
Urban Development Commission CAP241
Utilities Regulation CAP282
Value Added Tax CAP087
Vessels (Registration Fee) CAP297A
Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) CAP374
Visiting Forces CAP118
Vital Statistics Registration CAP192A
Wages Councils CAP362
Weights and Measures CAP331
West Indies Shipping Corporation CAP019A
Western Union Telegraph Company CAP284
Widows and Children Pensions CAP037
Wild Birds Protection CAP398
Witnesses and Interpreters (Payment) CAP119
Young Persons Protection CAP193