Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

67.   Warrant to search for forged die, etc.

On information given before a magistrate upon oath that there is just cause to suspect any person of committing any of the offences mentioned in the last section, such magistrate may, by a warrant under his or her hand, cause any dwelling house, room, store, shop, workshop, outhouse or other building or place belonging to or occupied by the suspected person, or where he or she is suspected of being or having been in any way engaged or concerned in the commission of any such offence, or of secreting any machinery, implements, or utensils applicable to the commission of any such offence, to be searched, and if upon such search any of the said several matters and things are found, the same may be seized and carried away, in order that they may be produced in evidence against any offender, and shall afterwards, whether produced in evidence or not, by order of the Court or judge before whom such offender is tried, or in case there is no such trial, by order of a magistrate, be delivered over to the Director of Finance and Planning, to be defaced or destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he or she may think fit.