(1) This Act applies to all persons and to all aeronautical products and other related things in Saint Lucia, to all persons outside Saint Lucia who hold civil aviation documents and to all aircraft registered or operated under the authority of a civil aviation document and passengers and crew members thereon such aircraft when operated outside Saint Lucia.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), sections 36-40 do not apply–
(a) to a member of the Saint Lucia Defence Force acting in that capacity;
(b) to any other person in relation to civil aviation document issued in respect of a military aircraft, military aerodrome or military facility; and
€ to operations of state or public aircraft.
(3) The term “aircraft”, when used in this Act or in Regulations issued under this Act, shall refer to civil aircraft only, and will not include state or public aircraft.
(4) Every person exercising the privileges accorded by a civil aviation document in a foreign state and every Saint Lucia aircraft operated in a foreign state shall comply with or be operated in accordance with the applicable civil aviation laws of that state.
(5) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring a person or aircraft to contravene or be operated in contravention of a law of a foreign state that applies to or in respect of the person or aircraft.
(6) Every person who commits an act or omission outside Saint Lucia that if committed in Saint Lucia would be a contravention of a provision under this Act shall be deemed to have committed a contravention of the provision under this Act and may be proceeded against and punished in the place where the person is found as if the contravention had been committed in that place.