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439.   Offering or exposing for sale property from vessels wrecked or in distress

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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439.   Offering or exposing for sale property from vessels wrecked or in distress

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    (1)   Where any person offers or exposes for sale anything which has been unlawfully taken, or is reasonably suspected so to have been taken, from any vessel in distress, wrecked, stranded or cast on shore, in every such case any person to whom the thing is offered for sale, or any officer of customs or police officer, may lawfully seize the thing and shall with all convenient speed convey it or give notice of such seizure to a justice of the peace or a magistrate.

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    (2)   Where any person who has offered or exposed any such thing for sale is summoned to appear before the Court and does not appear, or if he or she appears, does not satisfy the Court that he or she lawfully came by such thing, the Court shall order that the thing be delivered forthwith to or for the use of its rightful owner upon payment by him or her of such reasonable reward as the Court may determine to the person who seized the thing.

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    (3)   The offender is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000, and on each subsequent conviction of any such offence, to imprisonment for one year.

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