Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

16.   Regulations concerning importation of animals

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   (1)   The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act, make regulations prescribing the conditions under which, and the countries or parts of countries, from which animal carcasses, animals, animal parts, veterinary biological products, fodder, litter, dung and other similar things may be imported into Saint Lucia.

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   (2)   Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations may, in particular, make provision—

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      (a)     prescribing the ports of entry where animals and the things mentioned in that subsection which are to be imported into Saint Lucia may be landed;

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      (b)     prescribing in respect of such ports of entry the limits of the areas which may be used in connection with animals and the things mentioned in subsection (1) which are to be imported into Saint Lucia;

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      (c)     probihiting, restricting, or regulating the movement into, within or out of a prescribed port area, of animals which are to be imported into Saint Lucia;

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      (d)     providing for the cleansing and disinfecting, and the subjecting to quarantine, of vessels and aircraft used for the transportation, of animals to Saint Lucia;

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      (e)     prescribing and regulating the examination, inspection, seizure and detention of any animal or thing mentioned in subsection (1) prior or subsequent to its landing in Saint Lucia;

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      (f)     prescribing the documentation to be provided in connection with the importation into or landing in Saint Lucia of any animal or thing mentioned in subsection (1), including the certificate to be issued by the Veterinary Authority of the country from which such animals or things are to be exported;

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      (g)     prescribing and regulating the testing of any veterinary biological product which is to be, or may be, imported in Saint Lucia;

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      (h)     prescribing the times at which and conditions under which animals may be slaughtered in a prescribed port area;

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      (i)     prohibiting or regulating the movement of any of the things, other than animals, mentioned in subsection (1) and any utensil used in connection therewith into, within or out of a prescribed port area and regulating the disposal of any such thing or utensil;

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      (j)     requiring and regulating the mode of cleaning and disinfecting in a prescribed port area of any items whatsoever, including the hands or feet, the wearing apparel or articles in the possession of any persons arriving in Saint Lucia on any vessel or aircraft being used for the transportation of animals or from any country in which there is an outbreak of a prescribed or any other infectious or contagious disease affecting animals;

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      (k)     prescribing the marking of any animals imported into Saint Lucia by tagging or in any other manner, whether as a condition of landing or otherwise; and

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      (l)     providing for the application to animals imported into Saint Lucia of any test for any prescribed or other infectious or contagious disease or of any treatment or vaccination or inoculation for any such disease.

(Substituted for Act 15 of 1994)