Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

• 1. Fundamental rights and freedoms

• 2. Protection of right to life

• 3. Protection of right to personal liberty

• 4. Protection from slavery and forced labour

• 5. Protection from inhuman treatment

• 6. Protection from deprivation of property

• 7. Protection from arbitrary search or entry

• 8. Provisions to secure protection of law

• 9. Protection of freedom of conscience

• 10. Protection of freedom of expression

• 11. Protection of freedom of assembly and association

• 12. Protection of freedom of movement

• 13. Protection from discrimination on the grounds of race, etc

• 14. Emergency powers

• 15. Protection of persons detained under emergency laws

• 16. Enforcement of protective provisions

• 17. Declaration of emergency

• 18. Interpretation and savings

• 19. Establishment of office

• 21. Oaths

• 23. Establishment

• 24. Composition

• 25. Qualifications

• 26. Disqualifications

• 27. Tenure of office

• 28. Inability

• 29. President and Deputy President

• 30. Composition

• 31. Qualifications for election

• 32. Disqualifications for election

• 33. Elections

• 34.   Tenure of office

• 35. Speaker

• 36. Deputy Speaker

• 37. Responsibility for elections

• 38.   Clerks of Senate and House of Assembly and their staff

• 39.   Determination of questions of membership

• 40. Power to make laws

• 41. Alteration of Constitution and Supreme Court Order

• 42. Freedom of speech

• 43. Oath by Members

• 44. Presiding

• 45. Voting

• 46. Penalty for sitting if unqualified

• 47. Mode of exercise of legislative power

• 48. Restrictions with regard to certain financial measures

• 49.   Restrictions on powers of Senate as to money bills

• 50. Restrictions on powers of Senate as to bills other than money bills

• 51. Provision relating to ss. 49 and 50

• 52. Scrutiny of electoral legislation

• 53. Regulation of procedure

• 54. Sessions

• 55. Prorogation and dissolution

• 56. Holdings of elections

• 57. Constituency Boundaries Commission and Electoral Commission

• 58. Review of constituency boundaries

• 59. Executive authority

• 60. Ministers of the Government

• 61.   Cabinet of Ministers

• 62. Allocation of portfolios to Ministers

• 63. Performance of functions of Ministers during absence or illness

• 64. EXERCISE of Governor General's functions

• 65. Governor General to be informed concerning matters of government

• 66. Oaths to be taken by Ministers, etc

• 67. Leader of the Opposition

• 68. Parliamentary Secretaries

• 69. Permanent Secretaries

• 70. Secretary to the Cabinet

• 71. Constitution of offices, etc

• 72. Attorney General

• 73. Control of public prosecutions

• 74. Prerogative of mercy

• 75.   Committee on Prerogative of mercy

• 76. Procedure in capital cases

• 77. Consolidated Fund

• 78.   Withdrawals from Consolidated Fund or other public funds

• 79. Authorisation of expenditure from Consolidated Fund by appropriation law

• 80. Authorisation of expenditure in advance of appropriation

• 81. Contingencies Fund

• 82. Remuneration of certain officers

• 83. Public debt

• 84.   Audit of public accounts, etc

• 85. Public Service Commission

• 86. Appointment etc., of public officers

• 87. Appointment, etc., of Permanent Secretaries and certain other officers

• 88. Chief Elections Officer

• 89. Director of Public Prosecutions

• 90. Director of Audit

• 91. Appointment, etc. of magistrates, registrars and legal officers

• 92. Teaching Service Commission

• 93. Appointment, etc., of teachers

• 94. Police Force

• 95. Public Service Board of Appeal

• 96. Appeals in discipline cases

• 97. Pensions laws and protection of pensions rights

• 98. Power to withhold pensions, etc

• 99. Persons who become citizens on 22 February 1979

• 100. Persons born in Saint Lucia on or after 22 February 1979

• 101. Persons born outside Saint Lucia on or after 22 February 1979

• 102. Registration

• 103. Acquisition, deprivation and renunciation

• 104. Interpretation

• 105. Original Jurisdiction of High Court in constitutional questions

• 106. Reference of constitutional questions to High Court

• 107. Appeals to Court of Appeal

• 108. Appeals to the Caribbean Court of Justice

• 108A. Abolition of appeals to Her Majesty in Council

• 109. Interpretation

• 110. Appointment, etc., of Commissioner

• 111. Deputy Parliamentary Commissioner

• 112. Functions of Commissioner

• 113. Restrictions on matters for investigation

• 114. Discretion of Commissioner

• 115. Report on investigation

• 116. Power to obtain evidence

• 117. Prescribed matters concerning Commissioner

• 118. The integrity Commission

• 119. Declaration of assets

• 120. Supreme law

• 121. Functions of Governor General

• 122. Resignations

• 123. Re-appointment and concurrent appointments

• 124. Interpretation

• Schedule 2

• Schedule 3