Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

42.   Recovery of Penalties

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    (1)   Any offence under this Act may be prosecuted and any penalty incurred may be imposed or recovered summarily on the complaint of a forest officer or police officer.

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    (2)   All such complaints may be made at any time within one year from the time when such matter of complaint arose.

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    (3)   Where any forest officer makes a complaint against any person, any other forest officer may appear before the magistrate who is trying or enquiring into the matter of the said complaint, and shall have the same privileges as to addressing the said magistrate and as to examining the witnesses adduced in the said matter as the forest officer who made the complaint would have had.