Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

• 1.   Short title

• 2.   Interpretation

• 3.   Division of Saint Lucia into districts

• 4.   Soufriere and Vieux-Fort to be urban districts

• 5.   Choiseul, Laborie, Micoud, Dennery, Gros Islet, Anse-la-Raye and Canaries village districts

• 6.   Powers of cabinet to create districts and define boundaries

• 7.   Local authority not less than seven members for urban districts, nor less than five for village or rural districts

• 8.   Urban district authority either wholly elected or partly nominated

• 9.   Village and rural district authorities nominated

• 10.   Tenure of office

• 11.   Capacity

• 12.   Qualifications of members of local authority

• 13.   Forfeiture of seat by member

• 14.   Resignation of member

• 15.   Duties of local authority

• 16.   Qualification of electors

• 17.   Register of voters

• 18.   Terms of office and rotation of members of the Council

• 19.   Clerk to be Returning Officer

• 20.   Time and place of election

• 21.   Procedure for nomination

• 22.   Uncontested election

• 23.   Contested election

• 24.   Receiving of votes

• 25.   Questions at election

• 26.   List of persons voting

• 27.   Member replacing one who has vacated his or her seat

• 28.   Disputes

• 29.   Dissolution

• 30.   Payments of money to Treasurer for town or village or rural district Fund

• 31.   Composition of Fund

• 32.   Accounts

• 33.   Cabinet may make loans to local authorities

• 34.   Loans to be paid to the credit of the urban or village Fund

• 35.   Interest on and repayment of loans

• 36.   Loans to be a first charge upon urban or village Fund

• 37.   Statements of expenditure to be furnished by clerk for publication

• 38.   Procedure at meeting

• 39.   Warden replaced by clerk

• 40.   Pubishment of person offending against this act

• 41.   Making up of general assessment list of houses and lots of land

• 42.   Making and hearing of objections to assessment, etc.

• 43.   Making and publication of alteration of assessment lists

• 44.   Notification in gazette that assessment list may be seen at the treasury

• 45.   Tax ranks as a first privileged claim

• 46.   Tax in default is a judgment debt and interest is payable thereon

• 47.   Tax in default may be registered like a judgment

• 48.   Notification of execution on movables

• 49.   Notification of execution on houses and land

• 50.   Publication of notices not essential

• 51.   Execution on movables after august by district court

• 52.   Sufficiency of writ with list of defaulters or buildings attached

• 53.   Disposal of surplus proceeds or sale of movables

• 54.   Executionof immovables after September by the Supreme Court

• 55.   Clerk to assist with information

• 56.   Postponement of sales

• 57.   Seizure of immovables for purposes of sale unnecessary

• 58.   Irregularities do not invalidate execution or sale

• 59.   Sale of immovables by instalments

• 60.   Cost of collecting and recovering tax in arrear

• 61.   Taxes may be paid before 1 June

• 62.   Procedure in this act applicable to collection of rates under other acts

• 63.   Power of cabinet to make new schedules

• 64.   Right of tenant or occupier paying tax to deduct it

• 65.   Power to cabinet to remit tax in specified cases

• 66.   Appropriation of taxes, fines and fees

• 67.   Power to Cabinet to suspend the operation of Part 3

• 68.   Power to alter time mentioned in this act

• Schedule 1

• Schedule 2

• Schedule 3

• Schedule 4

• Schedule 5

• Schedule 6