Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

3.   Meaning of seditious intention

For the purposes of this Act, an intention to effect any of the following purposes is a seditious intention, namely—

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    (a)     to bring Her Majesty into hatred or contempt or to excite disloyalty to Her Majesty;

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    (b)     by means of any false statement or wilful misrepresentation of facts or of the motives or intentions of the Government or any officer of the Government, to excite dislike of or discontent with the Government or constitution as by law established of the United Kingdom or of Saint Lucia or of any British Possession or Protectorate or either House of Parliament or the House of Assembly or the Cabinet of Saint Lucia or the administration of justice;

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    (c)     to excite any person or class of persons to attempt to procure the alteration of any law or any matter in the State by law established otherwise than by lawful means;

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    (d)     to incite any person or class of persons to commit unlawful violence or any crime in disturbance of the peace or any misdemeanour or felony;

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    (e)     by means of any false statement or wilful misrepresentation of facts or of the motives or intentions of any person to create discontent amongst any of Her Majesty's subjects;

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    (f)     by means of any false statement or wilful misrepresentation of facts or of the motives or intentions of any person to promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different classes or races of Her Majesty's subjects;

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    (g)     to advocate, teach, or defend disbelief in or opposition to organised government;

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    (h)     to advocate, teach, or defend the duty, necessity or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer of organised government or of the unlawful destruction of property;

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    (i)     to advocate, teach, or defend the use without legal authority of force, violence, terrorism, or physical injury to person or property, or threats of such injury, as a means of accomplishing any governmental, industrial, or economic change;

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    (j)     to seduce any member of Her Majesty's naval or military forces, including the local forces, or of the police from his or her allegiance to Her Majesty or his or her duty; or

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    (k)     to induce any public officer by threat of bodily injury to omit or delay to do a lawful act which it is his or her duty to do or to do an unlawful act.