Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation In this Act— “crop year” has the same meaning as in the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority Act; “Early Retirement Scheme” or “ERS” means the Early Retirement Scheme referred to in section 23A; “Economic Development Board” means the Economic Development Board established under the Economic Development Board Act 2017; “factory area” has the same meaning as in the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority Act; “fob” means free on board; “ICUMSA” means the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis; “LCR” means Land Conversion Right; “manufactured” in respect of sugar, means sugar of any polarisation obtained from a mill or refinery where the starting raw materials are canes cultivated and harvested in Mauritius; [Issue 10] S49 – 2 Revised Laws of Mauritius “Mauritius Cane Industry Authority” means the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority established under section 3 of the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority Act; “Mauritius Standards Bureau” means the Mauritius Standards Bureau established under section 3 of the Mauritius Standards Bureau Act; “miller” means any person, or group of persons, operating a factory and includes any person acting as manager for that person or group of persons; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of agriculture is assigned; “Ministry” means the Ministry responsible for the subject of agriculture; “MS 193/2016” means the Mauritian Standard specification for white sugar declared by the Mauritius Standards Bureau; “Permanent Secretary” means the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry; “planter” means any person, or group of persons, growing sugar cane in one or more factory areas and includes any person acting as manager for that person or group of persons; “producer”, in relation to Sub-Part A of Part II and Sub-Part C of Part III, has the meaning specified in Part III of the Third Schedule; “raw sugar”— (a) means sugar which does not fall within MS 193/2016; and (b) includes plantation white sugar with very high polarisation (VHP) sugar and very very high polarisation (VVHP) sugar; “Registrar-General” has the meaning assigned to it in the RegistrarGeneral Act; “specialised financial return” means the specialised financial return issued by the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority in accordance with its Accounting Systems and Standardisation Manual; “specified entity” means any entity specified in the Fourth Schedule; “SPRP” means the Sugarcane Planters Regrouping Project referred to in the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority Act; “Sugar Investment Trust” or “Trust” means the Sugar Investment Trust established under section 3; “sugar reform” means a policy measure recommended pursuant to the Sugar Sector Strategic Plan, the Multi Annual Adaptation Strategy or the Blue Print on the centralisation of sugar factories; “Voluntary Retirement Scheme” or “VRS” means the Voluntary Retirement Scheme referred to in section 23. [S. 2 amended by s. 27 (a) of Act 20 of 2002 w.e.f. 10 August 2002; s. 3 of Act 3 of 2007 w.e.f. 1 March 2007; s. 3 of Act 34 of 2016 w.e.f. 1 January 2017; s. 42 (21) (a) of Act 11 of 2017 w.e.f. 15 January 2018.] S49 – 3 [Issue 10] Sugar Industry Efficiency Act PART II – DEMOCRATISATION OF OWNERSHIP IN SUGAR INDUSTRY Sub-Part A – The Sugar Investment Trust