2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

2.   Definitions

In this By-Law, unless the context otherwise requires—

Director of Finance and Planning” means the Director of Finance and Planning or any person acting for him or her;

constable” means any police or rural constable;

Cemetery” means the cemetery vested in the Castries Corporation by the Castries Cemetery Act;

Cemetery Committee” means such of their members to whom the Castries Corporation may from time to time delegate their power to control and manage the Cemetery;

grave” means an un-walled excavation in the earth for the interment of a corpse;

head constable” means the head constable of the Town Constabulary or any person acting for him or her;

monument” shall include any tomb, vault, headstone, cross, railing or enclosure erected on any piece of land the fee simple of which shall have been purchased;

pauper” means any person for the interment of whose body application shall be made to the Cemetery Committee in writing by a person duly authorised to make the same under section 2 of the Castries Cemetery Act;

Town Clerk” means the Town Clerk of Castries or any person acting for him or her;

vault” means a walled excavation or chamber of any kind for purposes of interment.

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