Saint Lucia

Criminal Code

CHAPTER TWO
Offences

PART IV
OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Contempt

Contempt of Court
380.— (2) A person who commits of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for two years.

Perjury and Related Offences


Falsifying, destroying, etc. register of record
381. Any person who, intentionally and unlawfully falsifies, destroys, damages, removes, or conceals any public register of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths, or burials, or any other public register or record, with intent to defeat, obstruct, or pervert the course of justice or to defraud or injure any other person, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for seven years.


Destroying, damaging, etc. will or land title
382. Any person who, intentionally or unlawfully destroys, or damages, removes, or conceals any will or any document of title to land, with intent to defeat, obstruct, or pervert the course of justice or to defraud or injure any other person, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for seven years.


Removing, damaging, etc. document
383. Any person who, unlawfully, with intent to defeat, obstruct, or pervert the course of justice or to defraud or injure any other person removes, conceals, damages, or alters any instrument or document used or intended to be used in any judicial proceeding, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for five years.

Keywords

National penalties - offences against the administration of justice



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