Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

PART 7
MERCHANDISE AND BAGGAGE

31.   Merchandise not to be put on ship in quarantine without permission

Without the general or special permission of the health officer, but subject to the provisions of regulation 32, no merchandise, stores, baggage, personal effects or other articles shall be taken off or put on board a ship which has not been granted pratique, and any person who contravenes this provision commits an offence.

32.   Entry of merchandise and baggage to be permitted subject to certain measures

The entry of merchandise and baggage arriving at a suitably equipped port of Saint Lucia shall in all cases be permitted, but the following measures may be applied where, in the opinion of the health officer, there is danger of infection from a specified infectious disease—

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   (a)     in the case of plague, disinfectisation or disinfection of recently used bedding and clothing and prohibition of the unloading of merchandise from an infected area which is likely to harbour rats or fleas unless adequate precautions to prevent the escape of rats and fleas and to ensure their destruction are taken;

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   (b)     in the case of cholera, disinfection of recently used bedding and clothing and prohibition of the importation of fresh fish, shell fish and vegetables;

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   (c)     in the case of typhus, disinsectisation of recently used bedding and clothing and of rags not carried as merchandise in bulk:

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   (d)     in the case of smallpox, disinfection of recently used bedding and clothing and of rags not carried as merchandise in bulk.

33.   Destruction of clothes, etc., likely to carry infections

The health officer or an authorised officer may order clothes and other articles of small value (including rags not carried as merchandise in bulk) which he or she considers likely to convey a specified infectious disease to be destroyed.

34.   Saving of mails

These Regulations do not render liable to detention, disinfection or destruction or and do not affect any article forming part of any mail (other than parcel mail) conveyed under the authority of the Postmaster General or of the postal administration of any other Government.

35.   Certificates

When merchandise, stores, baggage, personal effects or other articles are subject to any measures prescribed in this Part of these Regulations, the health officer or an authorised officer shall issue free of charge, on request by the ship owner, master or ship's agent, a certificate setting out the measures taken and the reasons.