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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 67Cadastral 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.
Land (Duties and Taxes) (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 118 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 IVA of the Act for transfer of an immovable property.
Amends: Land (Duties and Taxes) Act 1984. (2007-08-22)
Cadastral Survey (Land Surveys in Rodrigues) Regulations 2013 (GN No. 120 of 2013).
These Regulations, made under section 21 of the Cadastral Survey Act 2011, apply the Cadastral Survey (Land Surveys) Regulations 2013, except Regulation 5(6)(c) to (g) and (7), to the Island of Rodrigues. Those provisions concern method of survey and marking of boundaries.
Implements: Cadastral Survey Act 2011 (No. 22 of 2011). (2011-07-15)
Sugar 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)