c) Should not bring the Public Service into disrepute through their private activities".
Access to public property
For the purpose of defining public domain in a way of assuring its general use and
accessibility of the whole population to it, the Civil Code establishes:
Civil Code of Seychelles Act, 1/01/1976
Article 538: "All roads, public highways and streets kept up by a public authority, rivers, streams
and springs, the foreshore and banks, beaches which have been gained from the sea and which have
been left permanently high and dry, ports, harbours, anchorages and generally all parts of Seychelles
which are not capable of being private property, shall be held to be part of the public domain".
• Right to property.
Article 14, ACHPR.
Constitution Article 26.1: "Every person has a right to property and for the purpose of this
article this right includes the right to acquire, own, peacefully enjoy and dispose of property either
individually or in association with others".
2: "The exercise of the right […] is subject to the following limitations,
prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic societya) in the public interest;
b) for the enforcement of an order or judgment of a court […]
c) in satisfaction of any penalty, tax, rate, duty or due;
d) in the case of property reasonably suspected of being acquired by the proceeds of drug trafficking
or serious crime;
e) in respect of animals found trespassing or straying;
f) in consequence on a law with respect to limitation of actions or acquisitive prescription;
g) with respect to property of citizens of a country at war with Seychelles;
h) with regard to administration of the property of persons adjudged bankrupt or of persons who
have died or under legal incapacity; or
i) for vesting in the Republic of the ownership of underground water or unextracted oil or minerals
of any kind or description".
3: " A law shall not provide for the compulsory acquisition of possession of any
property unless:
reasonable notice of the intention […] are given to persons having an interest or right over the
property;