Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

84.   Penalties for falsification

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    (1)   If any person wilfully makes, or causes to be made, any entry, erasure in, or omission from a balance sheet of a society or branch, or a return or document required to be sent, produced, or delivered, for the purposes of this Act with intent to falsify the same, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he or she is liable to a fine of $240.

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    (2)   Any officer or other person who makes any material omission or omits to make any material entry which by this Act or the Regulations thereunder or by the rules of a society or branch he or she is required to make in any cash book, general ledger, statement showing receipts and expenditure, balance sheet, contribution card, members' register, account, record, return or other document affecting or relating to the property or affairs of a society or branch or to the benefits, rights or privileges of a member thereof, unless he or she proves that he or she had no intent to defraud, commits an offence.

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    (3)   If in any statement showing receipts and expenditure, balance sheet, return, record, form, account or other document required for the purposes of this Act any officer wilfully makes a statement or entry false in any material particular, or knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular he or she shall, unless he or she proves that he or she had no intent to defraud, commits an offence under this Act.