State Lands (Amendment no. 2) Act, no. 15 of 2024

THE STATE LANDS (AMENDMENT NO. 2) ACT 2024 Act No. 15 of 2024 Government Gazette of Mauritius No. 83 of 7 August 2024 I assent PRITHVIRAJSING ROOPUN, G.C.S.K. 7th August 2024 President of the Republic of Mauritius ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section 1. Short title 2. Interpretation 3. Section 6A inserted in principal Act An Act To amend the State Lands Act ENACTED by the Parliament of Mauritius, as follows – 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the State Lands (Amendment No. 2) Act 2024. 2. Interpretation In this Act – “principal Act” means the State Lands Act. 3. Section 6A inserted in principal Act The principal Act is amended by inserting, after section 6, the following new section – 6A. Lease of barachois situate wholly or partly upon State land (1) Notwithstanding this Act and any other enactment, the Minister may, by private contract, lease vested barachois on such terms as to the payment of rent and other conditions as may be approved by the Minister. (2) The rent shall be payable in advance and, in default of payment of any instalment within one month after service of a notice claiming payment, the Minister may, by Order in writing, cancel the lease, and thereupon Government shall be entitled without any further formality to resume possession of the barachois. (3) In this section – “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of fisheries is assigned; “vested barachois” means barachois, situate wholly or partly upon State land, which has been vested in the Ministry responsible for the subject of fisheries. Passed by the National Assembly on the fifth day of August two thousand and twenty four. Urmeelah Devi Ramchurn (Ms) Clerk of the National Assembly