Section 17: Promotion of agricultural diversification
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.
17. Promotion of agricultural diversification
(1) The producers shall keep an aggregate area of not less than 200 hectares (473.8214 arpents) under permanent gardens.
(2) The producers shall keep an aggregate area of not less than 510 hectares (1208.2445 arpents) under orchards bearing specified fruits.
(3) Subsection (1) or (2) shall be deemed to have been complied with
when one or more producers would have kept the appropriate acreage under
permanent gardens or orchards bearing specified fruits, as the case may be.
(4) (a) The producers shall rent out to growers not less than 65 per cent
of the aggregate area of land used in the year 2015 for the cultivation in
interline and rotational land of crops other than sugar cane.
(b) Where a producer fails to comply with paragraph (a) and any
attempt by the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority to resolve the matter amicably is unsuccessful, the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority may make an
application on behalf of an aggrieved grower to the Judge in Chambers for
an order compelling the producer to comply with paragraph (a).
(5) Subsection (4) shall be deemed to have been complied with when one
or more producers would have rented out the appropriate acreage as required
under that subsection.
(6) The aggregate area of land used referred to in subsection (4) shall
include land owned by a specified entity or the Trust or a body controlled by
it and shall not be less than the area used in the year 1998.
(7) For the purposes of subsections (4) and (6), the extent of land rented
out and used shall be determined in accordance with the Eighth Schedule.
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(8) In this section—
“grower”—
(a) includes a member of a co-operative society, a member of a
young farmers’ club or a métayer other than a métayer specified
in section 2 of the Sugar Insurance Fund Act; but
(b) does not include a body corporate which directly or indirectly
controls, or is controlled by the miller or the lessor of the land;
“permanent garden” has the meaning specified in the Ninth Schedule;
“rotational land” means sugar cane land between 2 sugar cane cycles
where the period of time between the end of one cycle and the beginning
of the other does not exceed 3 years;
“specified fruit” has the meaning specified in the Tenth Schedule.
[S. 17 amended by s. 27 (d) of Act 20 of 2002 w.e.f. 1 July 2003; s. 5 of Act 15 of 2013
w.e.f. 29 June 2013; s. 10 of Act 34 of 2016 w.e.f. 1 January 2017.]
18. —
[S. 18 repealed by s. 11 of Act 34 of 2016 w.e.f. 1 January 2017.]
Sub-Part D – Lease of Land to Métayers