(1) Where bona fide employment in Saint Lucia is awaiting an immigrant, he or she shall not be considered by an immigration officer to be a person who is, under section 4(1)(a), likely if he or she entered Saint Lucia to become a charge on public funds.
(2) For the purposes of determining whether there is bona fide employment within the meaning of this regulation, the immigration officer may require evidence as to the nature and period of the employment, the rate of wages which the prospective employer proposes to pay, and the ability of such employer to carry out his or her undertaking to employ the immigrant.
(3) Nothing in this regulation shall be construed as affecting the powers of an immigration officer under sections 12 and 14, and where an immigration officer exercises his or her powers under section 12 or section 14 with respect to an immigrant entering Saint Lucia for purposes of employment, he or she may, if he or she thinks fit, require the prospective employer in Saint Lucia of the immigrant to furnish the prescribed security under regulation 9 to repatriate the immigrant if the employment is terminated within 2 years from the date on which the immigrant entered Saint Lucia.