Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “capital project” means an intervention relating to acquisition or preservation, or to both acquisition and preservation, of non-financial assets for meeting defined objectives and consisting of a set of interrelated activities to be carried out within a specified budget and a time-schedule; “Clerk” means the Clerk of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly; “Commissioner” means any member of the Executive Council, including the Chief Commissioner and the Deputy Chief Commissioner; [Issue 7] R30 – 2 Revised Laws of Mauritius “estimates”— (a) means the annual estimates of revenue and expenditure, both recurrent and capital, prepared on a 3-fiscal year rolling basis, the estimates for the first year of every such period of 3 fiscal years requiring approval by the Regional Assembly; and (b) includes any supplementary estimates so approved; “financial year” has the meaning assigned to it by section 111 of the Constitution and section 2A of the Finance and Audit Act; “Island region” means the whole of the Island of Rodrigues; “Island region figure” means the Island region figure calculated in accordance with section 10 for a party having submitted a list of candidates for election as Regional Assembly members; “Island region member” means a person returned as a member for the Island region, in accordance with section 11; “Island region vote” means the vote for a political party for the election of Island region members, as provided by section 11; “local region” means any of the 6 local regions, the boundaries of which are fixed by the President, as provided by section 3 (4); “local region member” means a person returned as a member for a local region of Rodrigues; “local region vote” means a vote given for a candidate to be elected as a member for a local region; “Mauritius” means the State of Mauritius; “member” means any member of the Regional Assembly whether elected as a local region member as provided by section 8 or returned as an Island region member as provided by section 11; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for Rodrigues is assigned; “President” means the President of the Republic of Mauritius; “public officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 111 of the Constitution; “Regional Assembly”— (a) means the Rodrigues Regional Assembly established under section 3; and (b) includes the Executive Council established under section 34; “registered political party” means a political party registered under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act for the purpose of this Act; “Rodrigues” means the Island of Rodrigues; R30 – 3 [Issue 9] Rodrigues Regional Assembly Act “Rodrigues Consolidated Fund” means the Rodrigues Consolidated Fund established under section 75D of the Constitution and referred to in section 42; “Rodrigues Regional Assembly Law” means a law voted in accordance with the provisions of section 30; “Vice-President” means the Vice-President of the Republic of Mauritius. (2) Nothing in this Act or in a Rodrigues Regional Assembly Law shall be construed or interpreted as authorising— (a) anything which is inconsistent with or contrary to— (i) the Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius; (ii) any convention, declaration, treaty, protocol or any international agreement between Mauritius and any foreign State; (iii) any law enacted by Parliament, provided that the Regional Assembly may, in relation to the matters for which it is ident of the Republic of Mauritius. (2) Nothing in this Act or in a Rodrigues Regional Assembly Law shall be construed or interpreted as authorising— (a) anything which is inconsistent with or contrary to— (i) the Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius; (ii) any convention, declaration, treaty, protocol or any international agreement between Mauritius and any foreign State; (iii) any law enacted by Parliament, provided that the Regional Assembly may, in relation to the matters for which it is responsible under section 26, propose and adopt a Bill for the modification of any such law in its application to Rodrigues; (b) the operation of any law voted by the Regional Assembly beyond the confines of Rodrigues and such part of the territorial sea of Mauritius comprising those areas of the sea between the inner and outer limits of Rodrigues as determined in accordance with section 7 of the Maritime Zones Act. [S. 2 amended by s. 20 (a) of Act 1 of 2009 w.e.f. 1 July 2009; 1 September 2009; 1 January 2011; s. 3 of Act 12 of 2004 w.e.f. 26 June 2004; s. 17 (3) (a) of Act 1 of 2015 w.e.f. 1 January 2016.] PART II – THE RODRIGUES REGIONAL ASSEMBLY