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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act establishes the Environment and Land Use Appeal Tribunal, defines its composition and its jurisdiction and provides rules relative to proceedings before the Tribunal. The Tribunal shall hear and determine appeals under section 54 of the Environment Protection Act, under section 7B of the Morcellement Act and under sections 7 and 25 of the Town and Country Planning Act.

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    An Act to modernise town and country planning and make comprehensive provision with respect to land use planning and development in Mauritius.

    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The Act consists of 76 sections divide into 12 parts: Preliminary (I); Administration (II); Planning (III); Control of development (IV); Continuation of existing uses (V); Special powers (VI); Development by Government (VII); certification of development (VIII); Enforcement (IX); Planning Appeals Tribunal (XI); Compensation (XI); Miscellaneous (XII).Objects of the Act are set out in section 3. The Minister shall be in principal responsible for the administration of this Act. There is established a National Planning and Development Commission under section 6.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act shall apply to a morcellement, i.e. the division of a plot of land into two or more lots, but not to subdivision for purposes sale to the Government or a compulsory acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act; a mortgage or a fixed charge; or a sale or a donation of not more than one lot and to a division in kind between co-heirs, ascendants and descendants. The Act establishes the Morcellement Board, which shall assess an application for a morcellement permit by a developer. The application shall be accompanied by a plan prepared by a land surveyor.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act regulates the carrying out of surveys of land by, appointment of, qualifications of, etc. land surveyors including Government surveyors, i.e. land surveyors who are public officers of the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Town and Country Planning. No survey, plan or memorandum of survey, of land shall be valid unless it has been made by a land surveyor appointed by a commission issued by the President. No land surveyor, other than a Government surveyor, shall undertake the survey of any State land, unless he has been authorised in writing by the Chief Surveyor.

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    An Act to amend the Pas Geometriques Act.

    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Section 24 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) of section 24 by deleting the words “no person” and replacing them by the words “Notwithstanding any other enactment, but subject to section 24A, no person". Section 24 prohibits unauthorized setting up of jetties, alls, fences, groins or other structures on Pas Geometriques.

    Amends: Pas Geometriques Act. (1989)
    Amends: Territorial Sea Act, 1970. (1970-04-16)

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act declares areas along the coast known as Pas Geometrique to be public domain and makes provision for the survey of lands in such kind of land areas, the grant of leases, rights of lessees, and prohibits dumping on Pas Geometriques. The Minister may grant leases of Pas Geometriques or annexes. The granting shall take place by private contract or public auction. A clause, which imposes the planting of trees on the lessee, shall be included in every lease contract. Cutting of trees on Pas Geometriques requires permission by the Minister and shall be included in the lease contract.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The Act makes provision for the establishment, functions and powers, organization, etc.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act makes provision for the establishment Municipal City Councils, Municipal Town Councils, Village Councils and District Councils, provides for functions and powers of such authorities and for other matters related to local authorities such as the cadastral database and the granting of permits and licenses.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    This Act makes provision for the establishment of local authorities, provides for functions and powers of such authorities and for other matters related to local authorities such as the cadastral database and the granting of permits and licenses.Local authorities shall have various functions in the field of control of local matters including control of food, aquaculture and agricultural operations. Section 40 defines the purposes of local authorities. They include the promotion of the environment.

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Mauritius, Africa, Eastern Africa

    The Act makes renewed provision for – (a) generally the protection of wild fauna and flora; (b) giving effect to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and any other biodiversity related Convention to which Mauritius is or may become a party; and (c) the identification, control and management of reserved lands and private reserves, and for related matters.

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