Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

510.   Complainant compounding, delaying or withdrawing summary charge without leave

A person who makes any complaint for any summary offence alleged to have been committed by some other person and afterwards, directly or indirectly receives, without the permission of the Court by which the complaint was to be heard and determined, any sum of money or other reward for compounding, delaying, or withdrawing the complaint, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 or to imprisonment for 2 years.