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

• 20.   Acting Governor General

• 21.   Oaths

• 22.   Deputy to Governor General

• 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 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 1

• Schedule 2

• Schedule 3

• 108.   Appeals to the Caribbean Court of Justice