Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

45.   Permit to accompany spirits removed by a dealer

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    (1)   Every dealer who shall send out, deliver or remove any spirits exceeding in quantity 5 litres of one denomination for one person at one time must send therewith a permit granted by the proper officer in pursuance of a request note as provided for in the last preceding section or, if such a course be approved, issued by such dealer from a book to be supplied by the proper officer on written request by such dealer.

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    (2)   Every such dealer must use the permits in the order in which they are numbered in the permit book supplied to him or her.

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    (3)   He or she must not allow such book or any permit therein to be used by or on behalf of any other person.

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    (4)   He or she must enter in the permit and its counterfoil the particulars required by the form thereof and must sign the permit.

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    (5)   He or she must keep the permit book in his or her premises open to inspection by any officer and must allow any officer to make any entry therein or take any extract therefrom.

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    (6)   He or she must return the permit book and all its counterfoils to the proper officer when it is exhausted, or on his or her discontinuing or ceasing to be licensed to carry on business as a dealer at the same premises, or on request by the proper officer.

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    (7)   He or she must deliver the permit, whether granted by the officer or issued by himself or herself, with the spirits to the person to whom the spirits are described in the permit as being sent.

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    (8)   Every dealer acting in contravention of this section shall incur a penalty not exceeding $1,000.

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    (Amended by Act 2 of 1992)