An application or declaration made in accordance with the Act and these Regulations shall not be accepted or registered and the oath of allegiance required by the Act shall be of no effect unless it is signed in the presence of or administered by one of the following persons—
(a) in Saint Lucia, a justice of the peace, an attorney-at-law, or a person authorised by law to administer oaths for any judicial or other legal purpose;
(b) in any other country, a Saint Lucia diplomatic agent or a Saint Lucia consular officer in that country.