Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

671.   Period of limitation

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    (1)   Where no time is prescribed for making a complaint with respect to any summary offence by the enactment relating to such offence, the complaint—

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      (a)     shall be made within 6 months from the time when the matter of the complaint arose; or

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      (b)     if it arose upon the high seas shall be made within the 6 months after the arrival of the ship or vessel in this State; or

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      (c)     in the case of a continuous contravention, shall be made within 6 months, from the last date of such contravention and it shall be competent in such case in any prosecution to include the entire period during which the contravention has occurred.

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    (Amended by Act 11 of 2008)

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    (2)   For the removal of doubt and despite any other provisions to the contrary there shall be no period of limitation in relation to any of the following offences—

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      (a)     rape or any other sexual offence;

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      (b)     any sexual offence involving a minor;

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      (c)     murder.