Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

4.   Power to make regulations

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   (1)   The Governor General may make regulations, as respects the whole or any part of Saint Lucia, including the ports and coastal waters, for preventing—

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      (a)     danger to public health from ships or aircraft or persons or things therein, arriving at any place; and

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      (b)     the spread of infection by means of any ship or aircraft about to leave any place, or by means of any person or thing about to leave any place in any ship or aircraft.

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   (2)   Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), regulations under that subsection may, for the purposes therein set out, make provision for all or any of the following matters, that is to say—

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      (a)     the collection and transmission of epidemiological and sanitary information;

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      (b)     the signals to be displayed by ships or aircraft;

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      (c)     the questions to be answered and information (whether oral or documentary) to be supplied by masters, commanders and other persons who are or have been on board any ship or aircraft or are desirous of boarding any ship or aircraft;

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      (d)     the detention of ships or aircraft and of persons and things that are or have been on board them;

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      (e)     the destruction of things which are or have been on board ships or aircraft;

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      (f)     the duties to be performed by masters, commanders and other persons who are or have been on board ships or aircraft or who are desirous of boarding any ship or aircraft;

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      (g)     authorising the making of charges and providing for the recovery of charges and expenses;

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      (h)     the enforcement of the regulations;

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      (i)     the conferring on appropriate officers of powers to board ships and aircraft and to enter premises.

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   (3)   Regulations made under subsection (1) do not have any force or effect until confirmed by resolution of the House of Assembly. In confirming any regulations, the House of Assembly may make any amendments which it may consider desirable.

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   (4)   The Regulations contained in Schedules 1 and 2 hereto are considered to have been made and confirmed under the provisions of this section.