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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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20. Delivery of inmate to Court as per writ, warrant or order

(1) Any person arrested under any warrant, writ, or order, of any court having civil jurisdiction shall, in the absence of any provision in any law to the contrary, be brought without delay before the court by which the warrant, writ or order, was issued or made.

(2) If the court as mentioned in subsection (1) is not then sitting, such person shall be kept in custody in a correctional facility, a lock-up or legalised police cell until the next sitting of the court and shall then be brought before such court in order that he or she may be dealt with according to law.

20. Delivery of inmate to Court as per writ, warrant or order

2. Interpretation

3. Power to declare place a correctional facility

4. Power to declare place a lock-up

5. Legalised police cells

6. Appointment of correctional officers

7. Ranks of correctional officers

8. Medical personnel and other staff of correctional facility

9. Duties of the Director

10. Correctional Facility Standing Orders

11. Duties of Deputy Director and others

12. Correctional officers to have powers etc. of police officers

13. Use of firearm

14. Duties of ungazetted officers

15. Offences by correctional officers, etc.

16. Detention in custody

17. Legal custody

18. Inmates committed to custody

19. Detention of inmates as to terms of warrant etc.

21. Order for production of inmates in custody

22. Release from custody

23. Order of production by Minister

24. Mentally ill persons and persons with any contagious disease

25. Removal of inmate to public hospital

26. Security of inmate in public hospital

27. Transfer of inmates

28. Separation of inmates

29. Remand centers for juvenile delinquents

30. Inmates to carry out duties and tasks

31. Grave offences

32. Authority of Director to punish for minor correctional facility offence

33. Medical officer's certificate as to punishment

34. Procedure for hearing correctional offences

35. Inquiry Committee

37. Record of punishment

38. Supervision of inmates under sentence of death

39. Appointment of Board of Visiting Justices

40. Powers and duties of Visiting Justices

41. Inmate not to be punished twice

42. Suspension of sentence of escape inmate

43. Expenses for inmates' care

45. Report on Correctional Facility

46. Habeas Corpus

48. Regulations

Prisons Rules – Section 53

Correctional Services Code of Conduct Regulations – Section 48