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Mauritius Independence Act 1968

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 32 Cited in Amendments 68 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1968 c. 8
Year1968
(1) On and after 12th March 1968 (in this Act referred to as “the appointed day”) Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom shall have no responsibility for the government of Mauritius.(2) No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on or after the appointed day shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to Mauritius as part of its law; and on and after that day the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the legislative powers of Mauritius.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) On and after the appointed day the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified respectively in that Schedule.(4) Subsection (3) of this section, and Schedule 2 to this Act, shall not extend to Mauritius as part of its law.(1) In this Act, and in any amendment made by this Act in any other enactment, “Mauritius” means the territories which immediately before the appointed day constitute the Colony of Mauritius.(2) References in this Act to any enactment are references to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment.
  • This Act may be cited as the Mauritius Independence Act 1968.
    • (1) The (2) No law and no provision of any law made on or after the appointed day by that legislature shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including this Act, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and accordingly the powers of that legislature shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as it is part of the law of Mauritius.(3) The legislature of Mauritius shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .section 4 of the (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2 ) In section 1(6) of the (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) In section 2(4) of the (5) In the in paragraph (a) of section 1(1) (countries to which that

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