Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

616.   Execution of warrant of commitment

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    (1)   If any person is committed to a correctional facility, the police officer to whom the warrant of commitment is directed, shall convey him or her to the correctional facility and shall there deliver him or her, together with the warrant, to the correctional officer, who shall give the police officer a receipt for the accused, which shall set forth the condition in which such accused person was when he or she was delivered into the custody of the correctional officer.

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    (2)   It is not necessary to address any warrant of committal under this or any other section of this Code to any particular correctional officer, but upon delivery of any warrant to a correctional officer by the person charged with the execution of it, the correctional officer shall receive and detain the person named in the warrant, or detain him or her if he or she is already in his or her custody, for such period and for such purpose as the warrant directs.

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    (3)   In the case of adjournment or remand, the correctional officer shall bring the person or cause him or her to be brought before the magistrate at the time and place fixed by the warrant for that purpose.