St Vincent and the Grenadines

Government Departments and Institutions:

Legislation:

  1. Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1979
  2. Confidential Relationships Preservation (International Finance) Act 1996
  3. Confidential Relationships Preservation (International Finance) Act 1996 (Second Site)
  4. Copyright Act 1989
  5. International Banks Act 1996
  6. International Business Companies Act 1996
  7. International Insurance (Amendment and Consolidation) Act 1998
  8. International Trusts Act 1996
  9. Mutual Funds Act 1997
    [As amended by the Mutual Funds (Amendment) Act 1998]

[Life Offshore Group offers an Offshore Legislation Packet for St Vincent for US$35.95. Purchases may be made from their Order Page]

Packet includes:

Treaties:

  1. Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters
  2. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York, 1958)
  3. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September 1886, October 2, 1979

Judgments:

  1. Privy Council Decisions
    [All decisions for 1999 and 2001 and selected decisions from prior to 1999]

Williams v The Queen (St Vincent and the Grenadines) [2000] UKPC 30 (10 July 2000)

Williams v. The Queen (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) [2000] UKPC 29 (10th July, 2000)

Williams v The Queen (St Vincent and the Grenadines) [1999] UKPC 31 (7 July 1999)

Nicholls v The Queen (St. Vincent & The Grenadines) [2000] UKPC 52 (13 December 2000)

Yambou Development Company Limited v Sally Helena Kauser (as executive of the will of Helen Hadley, deceased) (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) [2000] UKPC 40 (25 October 2000)

Lawyers and Legal Institutions:

  1. Saunders & Huggins
  2. Rene M Baptiste
  3. OR Sylvester & Co

Legal Articles:

  1. New Offshore Legislation in St Vincent and the Grenadines (Site 1)
    [By Hon Consul Bryan Jeeves Esq, OBE, FInstD, President of the St Vincent Trust Service]
  2. New Legislation in St Vincent and the Grenadines (Site 2)

General:

  1. St Vincent Trust Service Ltd
  2. St Vincent and the Grenadines: Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998 (US Department of State)
  3. Herald Newspaper