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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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16. Duty to provide assistance

(1) A person who provides a public postal service or a telecommunications service by means of a public telecommunications network or a private telecommunications network shall take such steps as are necessary to facilitate the execution of an interception direction or an entry warrant, or both.

(2) Where the authorised officer intends to seek the assistance of any person in executing an interception direction or an entry warrant or both, the judge shall, on the request of the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions, appearing on behalf of the authorised officer, direct appropriate persons to furnish information, facilities, or technical assistance necessary to accomplish the interception.

(3) A person who knowingly fails to comply with his or her duty under subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or to both.

(4) An action shall not be brought in any court against a person for any act done in good faith under an interception direction or an entry warrant or both, to provide information, facilities or technical assistance under subsection (2).

(5) A person directed to provide assistance by way of information, facilities, or technical assistance pursuant to subsection (2), shall promptly comply in such a manner that the assistance is rendered—
1. (a) as unobtrusively; and
1. (b) with the minimum interference to the services that such a person or entity normally provides to the party affected by the interception direction or entry warrant, as can reasonably be expected in the circumstances.

(6) For the purposes of this section, the provision of information facilities or technical assistance includes any disclosure of intercepted material and related communications data to the authorised officer.

16. Duty to provide assistance

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

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