Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

2.   Interpretation

In this Act—

Agreement” means the agreement establishing the Caribbean Free Trade Association which was signed at Dickenson Bay, Antigua on 15 December 1965, and includes the Supplementary Agreement;

Association” means the Caribbean Free Trade Association;

Caribbean Community Market area origin” means, in relation to any goods, that they were grown, produced or manufactured in a Community Territory and consigned from a port in such Territory to Saint Lucia;

Caribbean Community Market rate of duty” means a rate of customs duty which is applicable to goods on the basis of their eligibility in that behalf as having been the produce of, or manufactured in, and consigned from, any of the Community territories, and includes an exemption so applicable from customs duty;

Community territories” means the Territories specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Act which the Governor General may by order published in the Gazette amend by adding or deleting any country or Territory;

Common Market” means the East Caribbean Common Market;

Common Market Agreement” means the agreement establishing the East Caribbean Common Market which was signed at Grenada on 11 June 1968;

Common Market States” means the countries specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 which the Governor General may by order published in the Gazette amend by adding or deleting a country;

Common Market area origin” means in relation to any goods that they were grown, produced or manufactured in a Common Market State and consigned from a port in such State to Saint Lucia;

Common Market rate of duty” means a rate of customs duty which is applicable to goods on the basis of their eligibility in that behalf as having been the produce of, or manufactured in, and consigned from, any of the Common Market States, and includes an exemption so applicable from customs duty;

drawback” includes any prescribed remission or repayment of, or exemption from, duty chargeable on importation into any Community Territory or Common Market State;

Oils and Fats Agreement” means the agreement made on 26 January 1967, between the Governments of Guyana, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago;

principal Act” means the Customs Duties Act.