Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

PART 3
LIABILITY AND MENS REA

Causing an Event

52.   Causing event by involuntary agent

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    (1)   Where a person intentionally, recklessly or negligently causes any involuntary agent to cause an event, that person shall be deemed to have caused the event.

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    (2)   Where a person outside the jurisdiction of the Courts causes an involuntary agent to cause an event within the jurisdiction of the Courts, he or she shall be deemed to have caused the event within the jurisdiction of the Courts.

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    (3)   “Involuntary agent”, means any animal or other thing, or the person who is exempted from liability to punishment for causing the event, by reason of infancy, or mental disorder, or otherwise under the provisions of this Part of this Chapter.