Section 107: Aids to navigation
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
107. Aids to navigation
(1) (a) The State shall ensure that there are, within the coastal areas of
Mauritius, such aids to navigation as may be necessary to facilitate safe
navigation.
(b) Where it is proposed to set up or discontinue an aid to navigation, or alter the lighting characteristics or any other distinguishing features
of an aid, the Director shall be consulted before any such proposal is carried
into effect.
(2) The Director may cause the publication and updating of information
on aids to navigation and declare such publications, and any other publications, to be approved nautical publications.
(3) Every Mauritius ship shall carry and use such nautical charts, sailing
directions, list of lights, list of radio signals, tide tables, current atlases and
such other publications and information as may be necessary or expedient
for the safe navigation of ships as approved by the Director.
(4) The Director may determine the system of lighting and other characteristics, and marks and features of aids to navigation and in doing so, shall
have due regard to the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation
and Lighthouse Authorities Harmonised Buoyage “System A”, or any other
international system of buoyage which may replace it.