SOLOMON ISLANDS

POLICE ACT 2013
(No. 2 of 2013)

POLICE (OVERSEAS SERVICE) REGULATIONS 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 171(2) and 173(1) of the Act, I make these Regulations –

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Overseas Service) Regulations 2013.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations –

 "Commonwealth country" means a country listed in Schedule 1, and includes a country not listed in Schedule 1, but later joins the Commonwealth of Nations; 

 "Forum country" means a country that is a member country of the Pacific Islands Forum listed in Schedule 2, and includes a country not listed in Schedule 2, but later joins the Pacific Islands Forum as a member country;

 "Overseas service countries" means the countries listed in Schedule 3 which the Prime Minister, by virtue of sections 171 and 173 of the Police Act 2013, may prescribe.

Deployment of Solomon Islands police officers to serve outside of Solomon Islands

3. Pursuant to section 171 of the Act, Solomon Islands police officers may, from time to time, be deployed in a Commonwealth country, a forum country or to overseas service countries. 

Deployment of police officers to serve in Solomon Islands

4. Police Officers from any Commonwealth country, Forum country or overseas service countries may be deployed in Solomon Islands pursuant to section 173 of the Act.

SCHEDULE 1
(regulation 2)

COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES

Anguilla	Malaysia	
Antigua and Barbuda	Malawi	
Bahamas	Maldives	
	Malta	
Bangladesh	Mauritius	
Barbados	Montserrat	
Belize	Mozambique	
Bermuda	Namibia	
Botswana	Nigeria	
British Antarctic Territory	Pakistan	
British Indian Ocean Territory	Pitcairn Islands	
British Virgin Islands	St Helena and Dependencies	
Brunei Darussalam	St Kitts and Nevis	
Cameroon	St Lucia	
Canada	St Vincent and the Grenadines	
Cayman Islands	Seychelles	
Cyprus	 Sierra Leone		
Cyprus (Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia)	Singapore	
	South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands	
South Africa	Sri Lanka	
Dominica	Swaziland	
Falkland Islands	Tanzania	
Ghana	The Gambia	
Gibraltar	Trinidad and Tobago	
Grenada	Turks and Caicos Islands	
Guyana	Uganda	
India	United Kingdom of Great Britain and	
Jamaica	Northern Ireland	
Kenya	 Zambia		
Lesotho	Zimbabwe	

SCHEDULE 2
(regulation 2)

PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM COUNTRIES

Australia
Cook Islands	Niue		
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji Islands	Palau 
Papua New Guinea		
Kiribati	Solomon Islands		
Marshall Islands	Samoa
Tonga		
New Zealand
Nauru	Tuvalu
Vanuatu		

SCHEDULE 3
(regulation 2)

OVERSEAS SERVICE COUNTRIES

MADE IN HONIARA this 		day of 				2013.

GORDON DARCY LILO
PRIME MINISTER