(1) Except with the permission of the Director of Finance and Planning, no person resident in Saint Lucia who has a right (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) to receive any specified currency, or to receive from a person resident outside the scheduled territories a payment in sterling, shall do, or refrain from doing, any act with intent to secure or shall do any act which involves, is in association with or is preparatory to any transaction securing—
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(a) that the receipt by him or her of the whole or part of that currency or, as the case may be, of that payment in sterling, is delayed; or
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(b) that the currency or payment ceases, in whole or in part, to be receivable by him or her.