36. Power to demand production of removal permits
It is lawful for any forest officer or any person authorised by him or her, or for any rural constable, or police officer, in any public road or place to stop any person conveying or removing, or who he or she may have cause to suspect is conveying or removing timber or other forest produce, the produce of Saint Lucia, and to demand the production of the permit for such conveying or removal, and if such person is conveying or removing such timber or other forest produce and fails to produce such permit or to account satisfactorily for its absence, such forest officer, authorised person, rural constable, or police officer may arrest such person and take him or her and such timber before a magistrate or justice of the peace or the officer or non-commissioned officer in charge of the nearest police station to be dealt with according to law. (Amended by Act 11 of 1983)