Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

24.   Security restricted area

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    (1)   The Minister may, for security reasons, designate any part of an airport or any air navigation installation or any part of such installation when not part of an airport, to be a security restricted area for the purposes of this Act and regulations made thereunder.

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    (2)   The Minister may delegate his or her powers to designate a security restricted area pursuant to subsection (1) to any person who manages an airport or to any person in legal custody and control of any air navigation facility.

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    (3)   Every person in a security restricted area shall, on the request of a security officer, state his or her name and address, and produce satisfactory evidence of its correctness, and the purpose of his or her presence in such area and his or her authority to enter it.

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    (4)   A security officer may order, any person who has failed to satisfy a request made under subsection (3) to leave a security restricted area and any such person shall comply with such an order.

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    (5)   A security officer and any person he or she calls to his or her assistance, may use such force as may be reasonably necessary to remove from any security restricted area any person who fails or refuses forthwith to leave the security restricted area after having been ordered by a security officer to do so in accordance with subsection (3).