Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

45.   Security by officers

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    (1)   Every officer of a society or branch having receipt or charge of money shall, before taking upon himself or herself the execution of his or her office, become bound with one sufficient surety at the least in a bond in the form set out in Form No. 6 of Schedule 2 or give the security of a guarantee society or company, in such sum as the society or branch directs, conditioned for his or her rendering a just and true account of all sums of money received and paid by him or her on account of the society or branch at such times as its rules appoint, or as the society or branch or the trustees or committee thereof require him or her to do, and for the payment by him or her of all sums due from him or her to the society or branch.

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    (2)   Both the principal and the surety shall make a statutory declaration testifying to the sufficiency of the security furnished by the bond.

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    (3)   The bond shall within 14 days after execution thereof be forwarded, together with the above-mentioned declaration, by the society to the Registrar, who shall thereupon issue his or her certificate as to the lodgment thereof; and a copy of the bond certified under the hand of the Registrar shall be receivable in evidence without further proof of the contents or the execution thereof.

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    (4)   The committee of management of a society or branch or the Registrar in their or his or her absolute discretion and without assigning any reason for so doing, may require the principal at any time to verify the sufficiency of the bond so given by him or her or to furnish a fresh bond with one sufficient surety at the least.

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    (5)   No 2 officers of a society or branch shall have the same surety save in the case of a guarantee society or company nor shall any officer of a society or branch be or become surety for another officer of the said society or branch.

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    (6)   No person who enters into any such obligation as surety and no guarantee society which give any such security, shall be entitled to the benefit of any exception or shall be permitted in any action or proceeding thereon to rely on any exception or matter of defence, except that the principal has performed his or her obligation.