Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

6.   Qualifications for statutory benefit

A grower shall be qualified to receive statutory benefit in respect of the loss of ratoon mats which were growing upon his or her holding immediately before the windstorm which occasioned that loss, and shall not be so qualified unless—

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   (a)     his or her holding has suffered loss of ratoon mats to an extent not less than the minimum statutory percentage, or is in an area which has suffered loss of ratoon mats to an extent not less than the minimum statutory percentage;

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   (b)     he or she proves that he or she or some other person from whom he or she derived title to the affected holding has received payment from, or is entitled to payment by the local authority for bananas grown upon such holding and accepted by the local authority for export during the appropriate insurance year;

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   (c)     he or she makes a return in accordance with the provisions of section 8;

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   (d)     he or she affords to the Authority or to any person authorised in writing in that behalf by the Authority, such information and opportunity of inspecting his or her holdings, whether affected or not, or any books or records kept by him or her in relation to such holdings and of inspecting any damage to such holdings as may be required by the Authority; and

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   (e)     he or she, if required so to do by the Authority—

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      (i)     enters into an undertaking, in such form as may be prescribed, to apply the whole or such part of any sum received by him or her by way of statutory benefit as the Authority may specify, to the restoration, replacement, rehabilitation or extension of his or her holding, or

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      (ii)     in case he or she has previously received statutory benefit, satisfies the Authority that the whole or such part of any such benefit as the Authority may have specified was expended in the restoration, replacement, rehabilitation or extension of his or her holding.