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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 21 - 25 of 67Professional Land Surveyors’ Council Act 2014 (No. 4 of 2014).
This Act concerns land survey. It establishes the Professional Land Surveyors’ Council and regulates the profession of land surveyor as appointed by the President under this Act. The Council shall, among other things, register land surveyors and ensure that the Code of Practice is complied with by professional land surveyors. No person shall practise land surveying in Mauritius unless he or she is registered as a professional land surveyor with the Council.
Cadastral Survey (Exemption of Fees for Access to Information from the DCDB) Regulations 2014 (GN No. 46 of 2014).
These Regulations list in the Schedule the prescribed bodies for the purposes of section 15(2) of the Cadastral Survey Act 2011. These bodies shall be exempted from payment of a fee for access to the digital cadastral database (DCDB).
Implements: Cadastral Survey Act 2011 (No. 22 of 2011). (2011-07-15)
Land (Duties and Taxes) (Amendment of Schedule) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 172 of 2013).
These Regulations amend the Land (Duties and Taxes) Act in the Eighth Schedule which lists deeds of transfer that are exempted pursuant to section 45A(3)) from payment of duty or tax under Part II, Part III and Part VIA of the Act for transfer of an immovable property.
Amends: Land (Duties and Taxes) Act 1984. (2007-08-22)
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)