(1) Where a member of a visiting force or a dependant of a member of a visiting force has been tried by a civil court and has been convicted or acquitted, he or she shall not be tried again within Saint Lucia for the same offence by a service court of that designated State.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent a service court from trying within Saint Lucia a member of the visiting force or a dependant of a member of a visiting force for any violation of rules of discipline arising from an act or omission that constituted an offence for which he or she was tried by a civil court.