Section 3.1: "The Tribunal may, on an application, grant a protection order". 2: "An application for a protection order may be made: a) by a family member who has been or may be subjected to family violence; b) where the family member […] is an adult and is unable to make the application, by the Director of Social Services; c) where the family member […] is a child, by a parent or guardian, by a person with whom the child normally resides, by the Director of Social Services; by the child with leave of the Tribunal if […] has attained the age of 14 years". Section 5: "Notwithstanding any other written law, no costs shall be allowed in proceedings under this Act". Section 6: "A person who intentionally contravenes an interim protection order or a protection order shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction before the Tribunal to a fine of R 30, 000 or to imprisonment for 3 years or to both […]". Section 8: "The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the provisions of any other written law relating to conduct constituting family violence". The Civil Code of Seychelles, as a subsidiary law to the Constitution, establishes several rules which either in a direct or indirect way protect the family, especially though the obligations of its members. For example the spouses jointly, by mere fact of the marriage, undertake the obligation to maintain and bring up their children, they owe to each other faithfulness, support, assistance and care, the children shall be bound to maintain their father and mother or other ascendants who are in need (in Article 206 the Code makes this obligation extensive to those who are relativesin-law), a child during his minority owes honour and respect to his father and mother, the authority of the parents shall be exercise in the interest of the child, etc. Civil Status Act, 22/04/1893. Laws of Seychelles 1996. Section 40: "A male person under the age of eighteen years or a female under the age of fifteen years cannot contract marriage […]". Section 41: "There is no marriage when there is no consent". Section 42: "No second marriage can be contracted before the dissolution of the first marriage". Sections 43, 44 and 45: Marriage is prohibited between all ascendants and descendants, and between brother and sister, whether legitimate or natural. Is further prohibited between a man and his niece or a woman and her nephew. Section 74: "No fee shall be charged for the publication or celebration marriage. of a marriage in any office. The parties shall further be entitled to receive free of cost a copy of the publication and a copy of the act of marriage".