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§ 11.
§ 11.1.The legislature is bound to constitutional order, the executive authority and legal decisions in law and justice.
§ 11.2.All state nationals have the right to resist anyone who attempts to set aside this regulation, if other redress is not possible.
§ 12.
§ 12.1.All legislation rests with the Sovereign.
§ 12.2.For the preservation of peace and for security of the country, the Sovereign may by law consent to the restriction of the Sovereign's power.
§ 12.3.For the settlement of international disputes the Sovereign assents to entering into agreements concerning a general comprehensive, obligatory, international jurisdiction of arbitration.
§ 12.4.The Legal system, otherwise, is based on the British Common Law and the British Law of Contract. This does not exclude certain special laws which then take precedence over this law.
§ 12.5.
a)The Sovereign especially exercises the exclusive jurisdiction over taxes, customs duties, privileges and monopolies.
b)Revenues from these laws belong to the Sovereign as well as to the ministries or the representatives of monopolies, in accordance with contractually regulated ratio of distribution. Changes in legally stipulated taxes or privileges can be made only with the agreement of the person concerned or at reasonable interval of time.
c)The levying of customs duties and taxes is made by the Ministry of Finances, on the advice of the Privy Council.
d)The Sovereign takes the necessary steps to ensure that an audit of accounts and an examination of the ratio of distribution takes place.
§ 13.The general provisions of international law are a constituent part of the constitutional law of Sealand and have precedence over other laws; they create rights and duties directly for the nationals of the State.
§ 14.The national flag is rectangular, red in the upper diagonal half and black in the lower diagonal half, save that a white diagonal bar forms part of such lower diagonal part of the flag.
§ 15.The national language is English.
§ 16.All the merchant ships of the State form a centralised merchant fleet.
§ 17.For maintenance of order and security the State may legally raise a body of police, with the approval of the Sovereign or the competent Ministry, employ them for this purpose.
§ 18.
§ 18.1.For the maintenance of law and order there is the national Tribunal, divided into two senates, the first senate is responsible for matter of international law, public law and constitutional law; the second senate is responsible for all other legal matters.
§ 18.2.Each senate has a president. The president of the first senate is the President of the Supreme Court of Justice and member of the Privy Council.
§ 18.3.The second senate is the Court of Appeal for the Boards of Justice subordinate to it.
§ 18.4.At least two persons are appointed to each senate, and at least one person to each Board of Justice, and they must establish their qualification for juridical function.
§ 18.5.The courts work out their regulations of procedure themselves, within the framework of this law.
§ 19.
§ 19.1.Everyone may claim to be legally heard before the Court.
§ 19.2.A person can only be sentenced when the offence was legally defined before the deed was committed. No criminal act will be retrospectively made such an offence.
§ 19.3.No one may be convicted more than once for the same offence.
§ 19.4. There is no death sentence.
§ 19.5. Imprisonment is permitted only with the approval of the President of the Supreme Court, or his authorized deputy.
§ 19.6.The right of granting a pardon is a prerogative of the Sovereign.
