2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

57.   Offences

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    (1)   A person commits an offence who—

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      (a)     wilfully fails to give the information as it is in his or her power to give or gives information which he or she knows to be false or does not believe to be true;

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      (b)     without lawful authority destroys, mutilates, defaces, removes or makes any alteration in—

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        (i)     an unused, completed, uncompleted or cancelled registration record card,

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        (ii)     a registration record inventory form,

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        (iii)     a file of notice of refusal,

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        (iv)     any other document published under these Regulations;

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      (c)     assaults, obstructs or in any way interferes with a registration officer, an enumerator or a photographer in the execution of his or her duty under these Regulations;

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      (d)     having no lawful business to perform under these Regulations remains at a registration centre after having been required by a registration officer or enumerator to depart therefrom;

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      (e)     registers more than once as an elector for the same electoral district;

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      (f)     registers as an elector in more than one electoral district;

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      (g)     incites, aids, counsels or abets any other person to commit any of the offences contained in paragraphs (a) to (f) of this subregulation; or

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      (h)     on the hearing of an application in respect of any matter under these Regulations make any statement on oath which he or she knows to be false or does not believe to be true.

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    (Amended by S.I. 41/1978)

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    (2)   A person who commits an offence under these Regulations is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $100 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.