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Although known to Arab and Malay sailors as early as the 10th century, Mauritius was first explored by the Portuguese in the 16th century and subsequently settled by the Dutch - who named it in honor of Prince Maurits van NASSAU - in the 17th century. The French assumed control in 1715, developing the island into an important naval base overseeing Indian Ocean trade, and establishing a plantation economy of sugar cane. The British captured the island in 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars. Mauritius remained a strategically important British naval base, and later an air station, playing an important role during World War II for anti-submarine and convoy operations, as well as the collection of signals intelligence. Independence from the UK was attained in 1968. A stable democracy with regular free elections and a positive human rights record, the country has attracted considerable foreign investment and has one of Africa's highest per capita incomes.
Mauritius is a parliamentary republic.
Source: CIA World Factbook
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Displaying 26 - 30 of 67Sugar Industry Efficiency (Amendment) Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013).
This Act amends the Sugar Industry Efficiency Act 2001 in various sections so as to, among other things, to: (a) extend incentives presently applicable; (b) extend the definition of “métayer” to include a person who, at the commencement of this Act, has been cultivating cane on land leased from the planter for a consecutive period of three crop cycles; (c) make better provision to prevent speculation on agricultural land by including agricultural morcellements in the definition of “agricultural land” and reviewing the minimum plot size for subdivision of land for agricultural purposes; (d)
Land Surveyors (Diplomas) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 94 of 2013).
These Regulations amend the Land Surveyors (Diplomas) Regulations 2011 in the Schedule by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical order, a new item. The Schedule lists, for the purposes of section 5(1)(b)(ii) of the Land Surveyors Act, the the appropriate qualifications.
Amends: Land Surveyors (Diplomas) Regulations 2011 (GN No. 36 of 2011). (2011-03-03)
Cadastral Survey (Land Surveys) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 119 of 2013).
These Regulations implement provisions of the Cadastral Survey Act 2011. They, among other things: empower the Chief Surveyor to, in accordance with the Act, issue Guidelines, Directions and Notices to land surveyors, to regulate the practice of land surveyors and to set standards for land survey work; provide rules for the carrying out of survey works; regulate survey procedures; and provide for the making of boundaries and the drafting of survey plans.
Implements: Cadastral Survey Act 2011 (No. 22 of 2011). (2011-07-15)
Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act, 2013 (No. 9 of 2013).
This Act amends the Land Acquisition Act in sections 14 and 18 in relation to the power of an authorised officer to make interim payment of compensation to an interested person pending an award of the Board of Assessment and deduction of the amount of interim payment from the award by the Board.
Amends: Land Acquisition Act (Act RL 3/341 of 18 December 1973). (1990)
Cadastral Land Survey (Registration of Memorandum of Survey and Survey Report in Rodrigues) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 121 of 2013).
These Regulations, made by the Minister under section 21 of the Cadastral Survey Act, concerns a memorandum of survey or survey report, which shall be drawn up, in such form and manner as the Chief Surveyor may approve and in accordance with these Regulations. The two originals of every memorandum of survey or survey report shall be registered by the land surveyor within 14 days of the completion of the survey. The Permanent Secretary shall endorse every memorandum or report of survey received by him or her.