Section 4: Revised editions
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.
4. Revised editions
(1) (a) A revised edition shall, subject to subsection (2) and to section 5 (1) (a), be published in such number of volumes containing such enactments as the Attorney-General may decide.
(b) There shall be specified in every volume of a revised edition the
date to which every enactment contained in the volume has been revised in
accordance with this Act.
(2) (a) In the preparation of a revised edition, the Attorney-General may
require the Law Revision Unit to omit any enactment.
(b) A statement indicating which enactments have been omitted
from a revised edition pursuant to paragraph (a) or section 6 (1), shall be
embodied in the revised edition.
(3) A revised edition shall be printed in such manner as the AttorneyGeneral may direct, and all expenses incurred in its preparation and publication shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in loose-leaf form or in such
other manner and at such times as the Minister of Finance may approve.
(4) (a) Subject to section 6, a revised edition shall come into operation
on such day as the Attorney-General may prescribe.
(b) Different days may be prescribed under paragraph (a) in respect
of each volume of a revised edition.
(5) Notwithstanding sections 12 (1) and 13 of the Interpretation and
General Clauses Act, a revised edition shall, for all purposes, from the day
prescribed under subsection (4) and with effect from the day immediately
following the cut-off date—
(a) be the sole official text of the enactments included in it; and
(b) be taken to be the law of Mauritius on the cut-off date.
(6) The Attorney-General shall, before the commencement of any volume
of a revised edition under subsection (4), transmit one copy of the volume to
the Clerk of the Assembly for deposit in the Library of the Assembly and one
copy to the Registrar for enrolment in the Supreme Court.
(7) A revised edition shall bear a title which contains a reference to the
year in which it was published and any enactment in a revised edition may
be cited by its short title followed, where appropriate, by a reference to the
relevant volume and page of the revised edition.
[S. 4 amended by s. 5 of Act 4 of 2011 w.e.f. 30 April 2011.]