Section 10D: Acts deemed lawful
This section is inserted by Act No 17 of 2023, section 9.
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
10D. Acts deemed lawful
(1) Notwithstanding section 5 of the Immigration Act 2022,
a person who has, or who is suspected to have, committed an
offence under this Act may be admitted to, and remain in, Mauritius
for the purpose of enabling the Unit to discharge its functions
under section 4B(3).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), nothing in this Act shall render
unlawful the act of an investigating officer who, in the discharge of
his duties in connection with the detection of an offence under this
Act, offers to buy or sell, transports, transfers, harbours, or receives
a person for the purpose of exploitation.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), an investigating
officer shall not offer to buy or sell, transport, transfer, harbour,
or receive a person for the purpose of exploitation, unless he is
authorised in writing by, and acts under the supervision of, the
officer heading the Unit.
(4) Any act performed by an investigating officer under
this section shall afford no defence to any person charged with an
offence under this Act.