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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)
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)