Section 184: Annual Government religious subsidy—The Government of Mauritius
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
184. Annual Government religious subsidy—The Government of Mauritius
made an annual grant to various religious bodies. The Sanatan Dharma
formed a Federation which received a share of the religious subsidy on behalf
of their members. Subsequently the plaintiffs broke away from the Federation and formed their own Federation and sought to have some of the religious subsidy paid to their new Federation.
HELD there is no legal constraint to the plaintiffs dissociating themselves
from the defendant, and under sections 3 (b) and 13 of the Constitution the
plaintiffs may associate or dissociate freely. There is no law forcing the
plaintiffs to be members of the defendant Federation and they may regroup
and receive their share of the religious subsidy through the new Federation.
Shamboonath Sewalaye v Mauritius Sanatan Dharma Temples Federation
(1991).