Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

92.   Overpayment or underpayment of dues and charges

Where the amount paid in respect of any dues or charges, is found to be incorrect, then if such amount is—

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    (a)     overpaid, the person who overpaid any such amount then is entitled to a refund of the amount so overpaid;

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    (b)     underpaid, the amount of such underpayment may be collected from the person who made such payment.

However, despite anything contained in any enactment such overpayment or underpayment shall not be refunded, or collected, as the case may be, unless notice in writing containing such particulars as may reasonably be given—

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    (a)     by the person claiming such overpayment, to the General Manager; or

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    (b)     by the General Manager, to the person against whom the underpayment is claimed,

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    within 6 months after the goods were accepted or the services rendered, as the case may be, by the Authority so, however, that where such underpayment is caused by information or description subsequently found to be incorrect, such period of 6 months shall commence from the date of the discovery by the General Manager of the correct information or description.