Section 13A: Sugar Cane Sustainability Fund
This section is inserted by Act No 34 of 2016, section 5.
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
13A. Sugar Cane Sustainability Fund
(1) There shall be a Sugar Cane Sustainability Fund for the
purposes of fostering the production of sugar cane and bagasse.
(2) The Sugar Cane Sustainability Fund shall be managed
by the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority.
(3) (a) Any contributions made on a yearly basis by
such bodies as may be prescribed shall be credited to the Sugar Cane
Sustainability Fund.
(b) Any contribution referred to in paragraph (a)
shall be made on or before 1 March of every year and in such amount
as may be prescribed.
(4) Subject to subsection (6), the Mauritius Cane Industry
Authority shall, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed,
effect payment to planters on or before 31 March of every year.
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(5) Where the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority is satisfied
that a planter has registered himself with the Sugar Insurance Fund
as from crop year 2015 for the sole purpose of obtaining payments
under this section, it shall not effect such payment to the planter.
(6) Any planter in a regrouping scheme under SPRP shall,
for the purpose of any payment under this section, be considered on
an individual basis.
(7) In this section –
“planter” means a planter registered with the Sugar
Insurance Fund on or before 31 May 2015.