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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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30. Closing hours

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 5 relating to the closing hours for specific licences, a licence holder shall not sell, or expose for sale, any intoxicating liquor or open, or keep open, his or her licensed premises—
1. (a) during the whole of Good Friday, Christmas Day and Corpus Christi Day;
1. (b) during Sunday or any other day set apart by public proclamation or otherwise for divine service (except between the hours of midday and 3:00 p.m.);
1. (c) on any public holiday (except between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. of the same day);
1. (d) on other days between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the same day.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply to the holder of a hotel licence, a boarding house licence, a guest house licence, or a restaurant licence in respect of the sale or disposal of liquor to guests or residents at the hotel, boarding house, guest house, or restaurant.

30. Closing hours

2. Interpretation

3. Licensing Districts and Constitution of Licensing Boards

4. Authority conferred by the different licences

5. Type of licences

6. Procedure for applying for licence

7. Annual and Quarterly Licensing Sessions

8. Sessions to be advertised

9. Adjournment of Sessions

10. Duration of Certificate

11. Procedure where applicant holds licence in respect of premises sought to be licensed

12. Procedure where applicant not licence holder

13. Stamp duty on applications

15. Board to take evidence on oath

16. Grounds for refusal of application

18. Accountant General to grant icences

19. List of licences to be published

20. Minister to authorise issue of hotel licences

21. Application for occasional licence

22. Application and mode of transfer of a licence

23. Death or insolvency of licensee

24. Mode of transfer of licence to other premises

25. Transferee of licence to apply for new certificate on expiration of licence

26. Stamp duty on applications for transfer

27. Sign Board to be affixed on licensed premises

28. Disposal without licence

29. Strength of spirits

31. Exemptions from closing hours in cases of emergency

32. Penalty for refusal to close licensed premises in cases of riot

33. Contravention of provisions as to closing hours

34. Penalty on persons found on licensed premises during closing hours

35. Power to apprehend person giving false name or address

36. Penalty for misrepresentation as resident of hotel

37. No disposal of liquor to persons apparently under 16 years

38. No internal communication with licensed premises

39. Power of entry on licensed premises

40. Obstructing entry

41. Custody of things seized

42. Release of seizure on bond

43. Objections to seizures

44. Accountant General to take legal proceedings

45. Sale of seizures by auction

47. Prohibition of sale of spirits on board vessel or in bond except by licence

48. Stock Book to be kept by licensee

49. Penalty for bribes

50. Register of licences

51. Record of convictions on Register

52. Summary proceedings

53. Onus of proof

54. Penalty where none specially provided

55. Appropriation of property forfeited and of penalties recovered

56. Evidence of disposal or consumption of liquor

57. Evidence of precise description of liquor not necessary

58. Proof of authority of officer or other person

59. Proof of knowledge not necessary

60. Convictions for several offences on the same day

61. Liability of licence holder for offences committed by other

62. Cancellation of licence

63. Provisions where licence-holder incurs a penalty and is without the State

64. Penalty for permitting gambling, drunkenness etc. on premises

65. Penalty for drunken quarrelsome or disorderly behaviour on licensed premises

66. No liability on forfeiture of things seized

67. Limitation of proceedings

68. Tender of amends

69. Limitation of liability

70. Penalty for giving false evidence

71. Cabinet to make regulations

46. Spirits supplied by one licensee to another to be by permit

14. Grant of certificate and its form