Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

PART 2
CONSTITUTION OF CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, LOCK-UPS AND LEGALISED POLICE CELLS

3.   Power to declare place a correctional facility

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    (1)   The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette—

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      (a)     declare any house, building, enclosure, or place, or any part thereof, to be a correctional facility for purposes of this Act, and may in such order, designate a name for that correctional facility;

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      (b)     declare that any correctional facility shall cease to be a correctional facility, and as from the date of the publication of such declaration, or such other date as may be specified therein, such correctional facility shall cease to be a correctional facility.

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    (2)   Any place used as a correctional facility immediately before the date on which this Act comes into force is hereby deemed to be declared a correctional facility under the provisions of this Act.

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    (3)   Cabinet may by order published in the Gazette declare any correctional facility or section of any correctional facility to be a maximum security correctional facility.