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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

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PART 1
PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Interception of Communications Act.

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2. Interpretation

3. Prohibition of interception

4. Application for interception direction and unauthorised disclosure of application

5. Issuance of interception direction

6. Scope and form of interception direction

7. Duration and renewal of interception direction

8. Application, issuance, form and scope of entry warrant

9. Termination of interception direction or entry warrant

10. Urgent application, form, issuance and scope and termination of interception direction or entry warrant

11. Modification of interception direction and entry warrant

12. Reports on progress

13. Protection for acts done in good faith

14. Execution of interception direction or entry warrant

15. Entry on premises for execution of entry warrant

16. Duty to provide assistance

17. Confidentiality of intercepted communications

18. Exclusion of matters from legal proceedings

19. Exceptions to section 18

20. Offence for unauthorised disclosure of interception

21. Order requiring disclosure of protected information

22. Effects of disclosure order

24. Disclosure of communications data

25. Admissibility of communications data

26. Listed equipment

27. Prohibition on manufacture and possession of listed equipment

29. Offence for contravention of section 27

30. Establishment of Tribunal

31. Exercise of the Tribunal's jurisdiction

32. Tribunal procedure

33. Tribunal rules

34. Amendment of Schedule

35. False statements

36. Regulations

37. Code of conduct

23. Tipping off