Section 13A: Protected area

13A. Protected area (1) The Commissioner may, where he considers it necessary or expedient in the interest of public safety or public order so to do, by Order declare any area to be a protected area. (2) The limits and extent of a protected area shall be demarcated at the site by such means as will, in the opinion of the Commissioner, make apparent to persons in or about the area concerned that that area has been declared a protected area. (3) (a) No person shall, without lawful authority, enter or remain in a protected area. (b) Any person who fails to comply with this subsection shall commit an offence. (4) A police officer or a member of the armed forces may, within a protected area, take such measures as he considers necessary to ensure that no person prohibited from entering or remaining in a protected area enters or remains in that area. [Issue 4] P13 – 4 Revised Laws of Mauritius (5) Notwithstanding any other enactment, no claim of any kind shall accrue to, or in respect of, any injury sustained by a person as a result of his having entered or remained in a protected area in breach of subsection (3). (6) In this section and in sections 13B, 13C, 13E and 13 F, “public safety or public order” has the same meaning as in the Public Gatherings Act. [S. 13A amended by Act 30 of 1991.]