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578.   Form and requisites of warrant

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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578.   Form and requisites of warrant

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    (1)   A warrant for the arrest of any person issued under this Code, or unless the contrary is expressly provided, under any other enactment, shall bear the date of the day on which it is issued and shall be signed by the judge or magistrate by whom it is issued.

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    (2)   No such warrant shall be signed in blank.

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    (3)   No such warrant shall be issued without a complaint or other statement upon oath.

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    (4)   Every such warrant may be directed either to a police officer by name, or to any police officer or generally to all police officers.

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    (5)   Every such warrant may be executed by a police officer named in the warrant, or by any one of the police officers to whom is directed.

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    (6)   Every such warrant shall—

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      (a)     state briefly the offence or matter for which it is issued;

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      (b)     state the name or otherwise describe the person to be arrested;

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      (c)     order the police officer, or police officers, to whom it is directed to arrest the person, and bring him or her before the judge, or before a magistrate, as the case may be, to answer to the offence or matter contained in the information or statement, and to be further dealt with according to law.

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    (7)   It shall not be necessary to make a warrant returnable at any particular time, and it shall remain in force until it is executed.

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