Section 3: Application
consolidated text (as at 2011). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
3. Application
(1) This Act shall not apply to persons who belong to Mauritius.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person shall belong to Mauritius
where—
(a) he is a citizen of Mauritius;
(b) he is a Commonwealth citizen and has, before 14 December 1968,
been ordinarily resident in Mauritius continuously for a period
of 7 years or more and, since the completion of such period of
residence, has not been ordinarily resident continuously for a
period of 7 years or more in any other country;
(c) he is the spouse of a citizen of Mauritius;
(d) he is a child, stepchild or lawfully adopted child, under the age
of 18, of a person to whom any of paragraphs (a) to (c) applies.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person specified in subsection (2) (b), (c), or (d), who, by virtue of section 6 (5) of the Immigration
Act, is deemed to be a prohibited immigrant shall not be deemed to belong
to Mauritius.
[S. 3 amended by Act 6 of 1983.]