Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

22.   Offences and general penalty

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    (1)   Any person who by any act or omission contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Act, is, unless a penalty is not otherwise specifically provided, liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 or to imprisonment for 12 months.

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    (2)   Where a person is, by virtue of any power contained in this Act or in any regulations made under it, required to do or to abstain from doing any act or thing and makes default in complying with any such requisition, it shall be lawful for a magistrate on conviction, in addition to any other penalty which he or she may impose, to order such person to comply with such requisition and to annex to any such order any condition as to time or mode of action or otherwise which he or she may think necessary to enforce compliance.

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    (3)   Any person who defaults in complying with any such order of the magistrate may, in the discretion of the court, be ordered to pay by way of penalty a sum not exceeding $50 for every day during which he or she is thereafter in default or to be imprisoned until he or she has remedied his or her default, but he or she shall not for the non-compliance be liable to the payment of any sums amounting in the aggregate to more than $500 or to imprisonment for any periods amounting in the aggregate to more than 2 months in addition to any other fine or term of imprisonment to which he or she may otherwise be liable.