Laws covering alien figurines (10)

I believe the answer is:

statuettes

'figurines' is the definition.
('statuette' can be a synonym of 'figurine')

'laws covering alien' is the wordplay.
'laws' becomes 'statutes' (I've seen this before**).
'covering' is an insertion indicator.
'alien' becomes 'et' (extra terrestrial).
'statutes' going around 'et' is 'STATUETTES'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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