2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

53.3   When committal order or sequestration order may be made

Subject to rule 53.5, the court may not make a committal order or a sequestration order unless —

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    (a)     the order requiring the judgment debtor to do an act within a specified time or not to do an act has been served personally on the judgment debtor;

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    (b)     at the time the order was served it was endorsed with a notice in the following terms, or substantially in those terms —

“NOTICE: If you fail to comply with the terms of this order, proceedings may be commenced against you for contempt of court and you may be liable to be imprisoned.”;

or in the case of an order served on a body corporate, in the following terms —

“NOTICE: If you fail to comply with the terms of this order, proceedings may be commenced against you for contempt of court.”; and

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    (c)     if the order requires the judgment debtor to do an act within a specified time or by a specified date, it was served in sufficient time to give the judgment debtor a reasonable opportunity to do the act before the expiration of that time or before that date.