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United Arab Emirates Constitution :• Protection of agricultural and animal wealth;
 * • Major legislation relating to the penal, civil, and commercial codes; company law, civil and criminal procedure codes;
 * • Protection of intellectual, technical and industrial property rights; copyright; and printing and publishing rights;
 * • Importation of arms and ammunitions except for use by the armed forces or the security forces of any Emirate;
 * • Other aviation matters that do not lie within the federal executive jurisdiction;
 * • Delimitation of the territorial waters and regulation of navigation in the high seas; and
 * • Regulation of the free financial zones, the manner in which they are established, and how far they are excluded from scope of application of the federal legislative provisions.

This constitutional amendment shall take effect from the date it is issued and shall be published in the Official Gazette.

Issued at the Presidency Palace in Abu Dhabi on 10 January 1996.