(1) Where a military member or a dependant has been tried by a civil court and has been convicted or acquitted, he or she shall not be tried again within Saint Lucia for the same offence by a service court of that member's State.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent a service court from trying within Saint Lucia a military member or a dependant for any violation of rules of discipline arising from an act that constituted an offence for which he or she was tried by a civil court.