21. Specified produce
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(1) The Minister may by order declare any produce of Saint Lucia to be “specified produce” with effect from such date as may be stated in such order.
However, no produce shall be declared to be “specified produce” while the marketing or control thereof is lawfully vested in another statutory authority.
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(2) The Board shall be the sole purchaser, handler, processor, seller and exporter of such specified produce, subject to such exemptions as it may from time to time determine.
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(3) A person or organisation other than the Board, shall not purchase, sell, export or otherwise deal in any specified produce except under a license granted by the Board.
However the provisions of this section shall not apply to any produce sold for local consumption.
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(4) Any person contravening the provisions of subsection (3) commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months.
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(5) Where a company commits an offence under this section every director, manager, agent and officer of the company who is knowingly a part to the contravention commits a like offence and is liable to like penalties.