Section 12: Designation of national heritage

12. Designation of national heritage (1) The Minister may, on recommendation of the Board, designate, by regulations— (a) any monument; (b) any object or site of cultural significance; (c) any intangible heritage; (d) any natural feature consisting of physical and biological formation or group of such formations which are of outstanding value; and (e) any geological and physiographical formation or precisely delineated area which constitutes the habitat of animals and plants of outstanding value, in Mauritius to be a national heritage. (2) The Minister may, after consultation with the Board, by regulations, cancel the designation of a national heritage where the national heritage has ceased to exist or where it would no longer serve the public interest that the national heritage remains so designated.