(1) Where in accordance with a warrant issued under section 3 or 4, an inmate is taken on board a ship or aircraft or to or from any place, that inmate shall be deemed to be in the legal custody of the Government of Saint Lucia until the inmate is handed over to the appropriate authority of the receiving state in accordance with this Act or the repatriation agreement.
(2) The Attorney General may at any time designate any additional escort officers as the circumstances may require, and those persons shall be authorised for the purposes of the warrant to take the inmate to or from any place under the warrant or to keep the inmate in custody under the warrant.
(3) Where an inmate who is being transferred to a receiving state escapes legal custody before the transfer is effected under subsection (4) and is unlawfully at large, that inmate may be arrested without warrant by a police officer and taken to any police station.
(4) The Government of Saint Lucia shall be deemed to have relinquished custody of an inmate at the time at which that inmate is handed over to the appropriate authority in the receiving state.