Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

24.   General restrictions on export

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    (1)   The exportation from Saint Lucia of—

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      (a)     any notes of a class which are or have at any time been legal tender in the United Kingdom or any part of the United Kingdom or in any other territory;

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      (b)     any postal orders;

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      (c)     any gold;

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      (d)     any of the following documents (including any such document which has been cancelled), that is to say—

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        (i)     any certificate of title to a security and any coupon,

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        (ii)     any policy of assurance,

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        (iii)     any bill of exchange or promissory note expressed in terms of a currency other than that of a scheduled territory and payable otherwise than within the scheduled territories, and

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        (iv)     any document to which section 6 applies not issued by an authorised dealer or in pursuance of a permission granted by the Director of Finance and Planning,

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      and any document certifying the destruction, loss or cancellation of any of the documents aforesaid; and

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      (e)     any such articles exported on the person of a traveller or in a traveller's baggage as may be prescribed,

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    is hereby prohibited except with the permission of the Director of Finance and Planning.

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    (2)   In this section, the expression “note” includes part of a note, the expression “security” includes a secondary security and the expression “coupon” shall be construed in accordance with the meaning of “security”.