Section 37A: Transport allowance for burnt canes
This section is inserted by Finance Act 2019, section 53.
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
37A. Transport allowance for burnt canes
(1) A planter or métayer whose cane plantations
have been burnt, while the factory in his enlarged factory area
is not in operation prior to the end of its milling activities in
any crop year, shall be entitled to a transport allowance at the
rate determined by the Board for all canes transported over a
distance exceeding 6.4 kilometres to a factory or cane transit
site, whichever is applicable.
(2) No transport allowance shall be paid where the
Board is satisfied that the fire was deliberately set by the
insured or his agent to the cane plantation with a view to
obtaining transport allowance.
(3) In this section –
“cane transit site” has the same meaning as
in section 40 of the Mauritius Cane Industry
Authority Act.
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(h) in section 38 –
(i) in the heading, by deleting the word “Compensation”
and replacing it by the words “Compensation and
transport allowance”;
(ii) in subsection (1), by inserting, after the words
“Compensation under section 37”, the words
“and transport allowance under section 37A”;
(i) by inserting, after section 38, the following new section –