This Act provides for criminal offences and relating procedure. The Act defines the following relevant terms: cattle, as horse, ass, mule, cows, sheep, goat, or swine, and any animal (other than a dog), which is ordinarily kept or used as a beast of burden, for draught, for riding, or for the production of wool or hair; land, including any immovable property; notified plant, including: arrowroot, bananas, beans, cassava, cocoa, coconuts, coffee, dasheen, Indian corn, kola, logwood, limes , manioc, nutmegs, peas, pimento, plantains, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, tanias, tobacco, tonka beans, vanilla, yams; notified plant product; noxious matter; property. Offences of significant relevance include: offences against the person using corrosives, explosives, weapons, or dangerous means; offences against property; liability of part owner for breach of trust or stealing; damage to property, including: arson by fire of building, mine or adjacent thing or of thing near a vessel; arson by fire of dwelling or vessel; arson by fire of crop, forest or plantation; arson by explosion to building, machine, road or other property; explanation of unlawful damage and amount of damage; damage of public way, water or work; offences against the administration of justice; corruption; unlawful possession of cattle or part thereof; unlawful possession of plant or plant product; stealing cattle; stealing other animals; burning land; damage to plant product; damage to cultivated plant in garden; damage to tree in park, garden or elsewhere; damage to land; trespassing on plantation; fouling public water; notice to abate nuisance due to animal, plant or thing; giving and selling poisonous grain or seed except for agricultural purposes.
Сент-Люсия · 2005-01-01