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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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5. Rehabilitation periods

(1) For the purposes of this Act, the rehabilitation period applicable to a sentence specified in column one of Schedule 1 is the period specified in column two of that Schedule in relation to that sentence.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a rehabilitation period referred to in subsection (1), shall commence—
1. (a) in the case of a custodial sentence, from the date of the release from custody; and
1. (b) in the case of a non-custodial sentence, from the date of the conviction.

(3) Where in respect of a conviction an order was made imposing on the person convicted any disqualification, disability, prohibition or other penalty, the rehabilitation period applicable to such sentence shall be a period beginning on the date on which the disqualification, disability, prohibition or penalty as the case may be, ceases or ceased to have effect.

(4) Consecutive terms of imprisonment or of detention and terms which are concurrently imposed in respect of offences of which a person was convicted in the same proceedings, shall be treated as one sentence.

(5) Where more than one sentence is imposed in respect of a conviction in separate proceedings and the person convicted is not excluded from rehabilitation under this Act, then, if the periods applicable to those sentences in accordance with Schedule 1 differ, the rehabilitation period applicable to the conviction shall be the longer or the longest, as the case may be, of those periods.

(6) The Minister may, by Order in the Gazette, amend Schedule 1.

5. Rehabilitation periods

2. Interpretation

3. Spent convictions

4. Convictions in a country other than saint lucia

6. Effect of rehabiltiation

7. Limitation on rehabilitation

8. Disclosure by rehabilitated person of spent convictions

9. Misrepresentation

10. Defamation actions

11. Establishment of board

12. Functions of board

13. Spent convictions to be expunged from the record

14. Board to make enquiries

15. Directions for expungement of spent conviction

16. Effect of direction by the board

17. legal status of person where conviction expunged

18. Board to inform applicant in writing

19. Applicant may re-apply where application rejected

20. Appeal to Magistrate

21. Act not to Affect Governor General's Right

22. Unauthorised disclosure

23. Exclusion from employment, etc.

25. Custody of Records

26. Regulations

25B. Effect of exemption under section 25A