2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

5.   Materials: determination of origin

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    (1)   In determining for the purposes of regulation 4(1)(a) where any goods were grown, produced or manufactured, any materials or other things of the following descriptions (wheresoever grown, produced or manufactured) used in their production or manufacture are considered to be grown, produced or manufactured in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, the Common Market area, that is to say—

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      (a)     materials described in Schedule 1 used in the state so described;

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      (b)     energy, fuel, plant, machinery and tools used as aforesaid in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, in the Common Market area, and materials used in the maintenance of such plant.

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    (2)   In determining for the purposes of regulation 4(1)(b) where any goods were grown, produced or manufactured, any materials of the following descriptions (whether or not imported into the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, into the Common Market area or containing any element so imported) used in their production or manufacture is considered to be materials not imported into the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, into the Common Market area and containing no element so imported, that is to say—

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      (a)     materials or other things described in subregulation (1)(a) and (1)(b);

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      (b)     materials which, had they been imported into Saint Lucia in the state in which they were used in the production or manufacture of those goods, would have fallen to be treated under the provisions of regulation 4(1)(a) as grown, produced or manufactured in the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, in the Common Market area.

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    (3)   In any case in which there is insufficient information on which to determine whether or not any materials were imported into the Caribbean Community Market area or, as the case may be, in the Common Market area or contain any element so imported those materials are considered to have been so imported.