Section 62:

62. Lease between landlords and métayers – Limitation on contracted freedom imposed by statute—The question to be determined was whether by restricting the freedom of contract of landlords in respect of leases with métayers in the manner envisaged under section 5A of the Sugar Industry Efficiency (Amendment) Act 1993, the plaintiff had been deprived of property. HELD considering that there were innumerable instances of laws which regulated the use to which property may be put, and that the sugar industry, having regard to its importance for the country, had had to be organised to achieve efficiency, with equity and fairness for all partners, even if this entailed the statutory regulation of its operations by limiting and controlling individual contractual freedom, held that the impugned section was not unconstitutional. La Compagnie Sucrière de Bel Ombre Ltée v Government of Mauritius (1994).