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PUBLIC ORDER ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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PUBLIC ORDER ACT
ACT
PART 1 PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
PART 2 MEETING — GENERAL PROVISIONS
3. Permit required for public meetings
4. Applications for permits of meetings
5. Grant of permit for meetings
6. Power to require dispersal of meeting
7. Offence to take part in unauthorised meeting
8. Non application of this Part
PART 3 MARCHES AND PROCESSIONS
9. Permit required for public marches or audio visual exhibitions
10. Application for permits for marches or exhibitions
11. Grant of permit for marches
12. Leader of march may be required to call on march to disperse
13. Offence to take part in an unauthorised march or exhibition
14. Offence to lead or organise marches or exhibitions
15. Non-application of this Part
16. Suspension of sections 9 to 12
PART 4 MEETINGS AND MARCHES — SPECIAL PERMISSION
17. Power to prohibit meetings and marches
18. Application for permits
19. Grant of Permits
20. Power to require dispersal of meetings and marches
21. Offence to take part in prohibited meeting or march
22. Exemptions
PART 5 PUBLIC OFFICES
23. Interpretation
24. Power to require dispersal of public marches and meetings near scheduled premises
25. Power of police officer to call on meeting or march to disperse
26. Participants in meeting or march to disperse when called on to do so
27. Inciting
28. Power to amend Schedule 2
PART 6 OFFENCES RELATING TO UNIFORMS, QUASI MILITARY ORGANISATIONS AND KINDRED OFFENCES
29. Prohibition of uniforms in connection with political objects
30. Prohibition of uniform
31. Prohibition of quasi-military organisations
32. Prohibition against unlawful drilling
33. Unlawful oaths
PART 7 MISCELLANEOUS
34. Offence to break up public meeting
35. Prohibition of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace
36. Prohibition of offensive weapons at public meetings and marches
37. Incitement to racial hatred at meetings and marches
38. Penalty for incitement to violence etc., at meetings and marches
39. Unlawful statements
40. Power of search without warrant
41. Power of Arrest without warrant
42. Penalties for certain offences
43. Appeal against refusal of application
Schedule 1
Schedule 2
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION