Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

596.   Record of decision as to bail

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    (1)   Subject to subsection (2), where—

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      (a)     a Court or police officer grants bail to a defendant;

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      (b)     a Court withholds bail from a defendant;

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      (c)     a Court, officer of the Court or police officer appoints a time or place or a Court, officer of the Court or police officer appoints a different time or place for a person granted bail to surrender to custody;

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      (d)     a Court varies any conditions of bail or imposes conditions in respect of bail,

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    the Court, officer of the Court or police officer shall make a record of the decision in the prescribed manner, containing the prescribed particulars and, if requested to do so by the defendant, shall give him or her a copy of the record of the decision as soon as practicable after the record is made.

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    (2)   Where bail is granted by endorsing a warrant of arrest for bail, the police officer who releases on bail the person arrested, shall make the record required under subsection (1), instead of the judge or magistrate who issued the warrant.

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    (3)   In this section “prescribed” means in relation to the decision of a Court or an officer of a Court, prescribed by rules made under this Code or in relation to a decision of a police officer, prescribed by the direction of the Commissioner of Police.