44. Power over offender circumscribed
Where an offender is surrendered by a Commonwealth country or a foreign State, the offender may not, unless he or she has left, or has had a reasonable opportunity of leaving Saint Lucia—
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(a) be detained or tried in Saint Lucia for an offence that is alleged to have been committed or was committed, before his or her surrender except—
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(i) the extraditable crime to which the requisition of his or her surrender relates, or any other offence of which he or she could be convicted upon proof of the facts on which that requisition was based, or
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(ii) any other extraditable crime in respect of which that country or State consents to his or her being so detained or tried, as the case may be; or
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(b) be detained in Saint Lucia for the purpose of his or her being surrendered to another country or State for trial or punishment for an offence that is alleged to have been committed, or was committed, before his or her surrender to Saint Lucia except—
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(i) a lesser offence of which he or she could be convicted upon proof of the facts on which the requisition mentioned in paragraph (a) was based, or
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(ii) any other offence described in the Schedule in respect of which the Commonwealth country or foreign State by which he or she was surrendered to Saint Lucia consents to his or her being so detained.