Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

16.   Bye-laws

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   (1)   For the purpose of protecting, preserving and maintaining immoveable property and other property, held by the Trust and the regulation and prevention of nuisances and the preservation of order upon immoveable property and other property of the Trust, the Trust may make bye-laws for any of the following purposes—

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      (a)     prohibiting any person without lawful authority from digging, cutting or taking any substance on or from such immoveable property and from cutting, felling or injuring any timber or other tree shrub, brush wood or other plant growing thereon;

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      (b)     prohibiting or regulating the lighting of any fire on such immoveable property;

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      (c)     prohibiting or regulating the firing or discharge of firearms or the throwing or discharge of missiles on such immoveable property;

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      (d)     prohibiting the deposit on any part of such immoveable property of any material for repair of roads, wood, dung, rubbish or other offensive matter;

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      (e)     prohibiting the injury, defacement or removal from any building, structure or other thing in or upon such immoveable or other property or of seats, fences, notice boards or other things put up or maintained by the Trust;

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      (f)     prohibiting or regulating the posting or painting of bills, placards, advertisements or notices on trees or fences or notice boards on such immoveable or other property;

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      (g)     prohibiting any person without lawful authority from bird catching, setting traps or nets or placing any noxious material on trees or laying snares or decoys for birds eggs or nests and shooting or otherwise taking birds or other animals on such immoveable property;

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      (h)     prohibiting or regulating the drawing or propelling on such immoveable property without lawful authority of any carriage, cart, caravan, truck, motor car, cycle or other vehicle and the erecting or permitting to remain on such immoveable property without the consent of the Trust any building, shed, tent, fence, post, railing or other structure whether used in connection with the playing of games or not and for authorising an officer of the Trust to remove therefrom any vehicle drawn or propelled thereon and any structure erected on such immoveable property in contravention of the bye-laws and prescribing any roads (if any) other than public roads upon which motor cars and cycles may be used;

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      (i)     prohibiting or regulating the placing on such immoveable or other property of any photographic art or of any show, exhibition, swinging roundabout or other like thing and for authorising any officer of the Trust to remove from such immoveable of other property anything placed thereon in contravention of the bye-laws;

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      (j)     regulating games to be played and other means of recreation to be exercised on such immoveable or other property and the entry and conduct of persons resorting and using immoveable property;

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      (k)     regulating the use of any portion of such immoveable land temporarily closed or set apart for the purpose of any of the objects of the Trust;

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      (l)     prohibiting and regulating horses being ridden on such lands without lawful authority;

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      (m)     prohibiting any person without lawful authority from turning out any cattle, sheep or other animals and for authorising any officer of the Trust to remove therefrom any cattle, sheep or other animal being thereon in contravention of the bye-laws;

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      (n)     generally for prohibiting or regulating any act or thing tending to injure, disfigure or damage such immoveable or other property or to interfere with the use and enjoyment thereof by the public;

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      (o)     for authorising an officer or servant of the Trust to remove or exclude (without prejudice to the exercise of arrest as provided under this Act) from such immoveable or other property any person who within his or her view commits an offence against the bye-laws made under this Act;

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      (p)     permitting the public or any specified persons or person to view and make copies or reproductions of or extracts from any chattel vested in the Trust on such terms and conditions in all suspects as may be prescribed by the Council;

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      (q)     prescribing any fee for any matter for which the Council shall determine that a fee shall be paid;

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      (r)     the annexation of penalties for the contravention of any of the bye-laws.

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   (2)   The Trust may revoke, amend or alter any bye-laws when so made.

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   (3)   All bye-laws shall be approved by Cabinet and published in the Gazette.

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   (4)   Copies of the bye-laws in force shall be exhibited on Trust property at such places and in such manner as the Trust think best calculated to give information to persons resorting to such property.

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   (5)   Any prosecution for the contravention of bye-laws shall be preferred by an officer of the Trust designated for that purpose by the Trust.