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INTERNATIONAL TRUST ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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INTERNATIONAL TRUST ACT
ACT
PART 1 SHORT TITLE AND INTERPRETATION
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Trusts, trustees and beneficiaries generally
4. Application of Act
PART 2 REGISTRATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRUSTS
5. Designation of Registrar and Deputy Registrars
6. Indemnity of officers
7. Registered office
8. (Amended by Act 21 of 2003 and Repealed by Act 15 of 2018)
9. (Repealed by Act 15 of 2018)
10. Qualifications for trust to be or remain registered
11. Language and translation
12. Fees payable to Registrar
13. Cancellation of registration
14. Appeals against cancellation
PART 3 VALIDITY
15. Validity of international trust
16. Presumption of irrevocability
17. Duration of trust and accumulation of income
18. Retention of control by settlor
PART 4 PROTECTIVE INTERNATIONAL TRUSTS
19. Protective international trusts
PART 5 CHARITABLE INTERNATIONAL TRUSTS
20. Charitable international trusts
PART 6 PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL TRUSTS
21. Trusts for non-charitable purposes
22. Extension of cy-pres
PART 7 PROTECTOR OF TRUSTS
23. Protector of a trust
PART 8 TERMINATION OR FAILURE OF INTERNATIONAL TRUSTS
24. Failure or lapse of interest
25. Failure of charitable international trusts
26. Termination of international trust
PART 9 BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL TRUST
27. Liability for breach of trust
28. Constructive trusts
29. Tracing trust property
30. Beneficiary may relieve or indemnify trustee
31. Power to relieve trustee from personal liability
PART 10 PROPER LAW AND EFFECT OF FOREIGN LAW
32. Proper law of trust
33. Change of proper law
34. Exclusion of heirship, community of property and other rights arising under foreign laws
PART 11 POWERS OF THE COURT, PROCEEDINGS AND LIMITATIONS
35. Jurisdiction of the Court
36. Court's determination of validity
37. Saving of certain rights
38. Extent of invalidity for creditors
39. Foreign judgments not enforceable
40. Application for directions
41. Payment of costs
42. Limitation on commencement of proceedings
43. Security for costs
PART 12 DISPOSITION TO OR BY AN INTERNATIONAL TRUST
44. Scope
45. Avoidance of fraud
46. Limitations
47. Application
48. Certain rights
49. Extent of avoidance of relevant dispositions
50. Statute of Elizabeth not applicable
PART 13 TAX EXEMPTION
51. Exemptions of international trusts and Saint Lucia trusts from income tax
PART 14 MISCELLANEOUS
52. Records
53. Confidentiality
54. Investments
55. Bankruptcy
56. Regulations
57. Transitional
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
International Trust (Forms) Regulations – Section 56 (Statutory Instruments 21/2003, 44/2003, 126/2006, 74/2015 and 61/2019)
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Forms
Schedule
International Trust (Fees) Regulations – Section 56 (Statutory Instruments 20/2003 and 101 of 2021)
1. Citation