Mauritius
Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund Act
Act 47 of 1974
- Commenced on 21 October 1974
- [This is the version of this document at 30 June 2017.]
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund Act.2. Interpretation
In this Act—"build", in relation to a house, includes complete or modify the building of the house;"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Committee;"Committee" means the Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund Committee established under section 5;"Fund" means the Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund;"General Manager" means the person appointed to that office under section 13;"Investment Committee" means the Investment Committee referred to in section 9;"member" means a member of the Committee and includes the Chairperson;"miller" has the same meaning as in the Cane Planters and Millers Arbitration and Control Board Act;"Minister" means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of social security is assigned;"officer" means a person employed by the Committee to perform administrative or technical duties;"owner-worker" means a person who—(a)owns—(i)not less than 8,441 and not more than 21,105 square metres of land; or(ii)such other area of land as may be prescribed,which is mainly planted with sugar cane; and(b)works on his land and has no other source of income;"planter" has the same meaning as in the Cane Planters and Millers Arbitration and Control Board Act;"retired worker"—(a)means a worker, other than an owner-worker, who has retired—(i)on or after reaching the retiring age specified in the appropriate Remuneration Order or after completing 25 years' service, whichever is the earlier;(ii)owing to redundancy after completing 20 years' service; and(iii)on account of illness or total permanent incapacity after completing 15 years' service;(b)includes a port employee formerly employed by a member of the Association of Port and Harbour Employers who has retired—(i)on or after reaching the age of 60 or after completing 25 years' service, whichever is the earlier,(ii)owing to redundancy after completing 20 years' service; or(iii)on account of illness or total permanent incapacity after completing 15 years' service;"worker"—(a)means any agricultural or non-agricultural worker in the sugar industry to whom a remuneration order applies; and(b)includes an owner-worker and a retired worker.[S. 2 amended by Act 39 of 1984; Act 4 of 1990.]3. ***
4. Object of Fund
The object of the Fund shall be to do all such things as appear requisite and advantageous for, or in connection with, the advancement and promotion of the welfare of workers and their children.5. Establishment of Committee
There is established for the purposes of this Act a Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund Committee which shall be a body corporate.6. Powers of Committee
7. Composition of Committee
8. Sub-committees
Subject to section 9, the Committee may, with the approval of the Minister, appoint such sub committees, for such purposes and composed in such manner as it may determine, to enable it to effectively discharge its functions.9. Investment Committee
10. Meetings of Committee
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12. Execution of documents
13. General Manager
14. Appointment of other employees
15. Delegation to General Manager
Subject to such general or specific instructions and rules of a general nature as may be given or made by the Committee, the Committee may delegate to the General Manager such of its powers as may be necessary to enable him to transact effectively the day-to-day business of the Committee.16. Conditions of service of staff
The Committee may make rules, in such form as it may determine, to govern the conditions of service of its officers and other employees and in particular, to deal with—17. Protection of members and officers
18. Cess on sugar
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20. Remuneration of members
The Committee may pay to its members such remuneration and allowances as may be approved by the Minister.21. Administrative expenses
The Committee shall, before allocating any money from the Fund, deduct such administrative expenses as it may reasonably incur.22. Allocation of funds
All allocations of funds by the Committee shall be subject to the approval of the Minister.23. Annual estimates
24. Grant of loan
24A. Loan for maintenance or repair of house
25. Applications for loans
26. Objections to loans
27. Priority in favour of Committee
28. Additional or new security
Where any property is given to the Committee as additional or new security for the repayment of a loan, notice of additional or new security and of the particulars thereof shall be published by the Committee in the Gazette and in 2 daily newspapers.29. Certain enactments not to apply
30. Calling of tenders and adjudication
31. Exemptions
32. Regulations
The Committee may make such regulations as it thinks fit for the purposes of this Act.History of this document
30 June 2017 this version
Consolidation
21 October 1974
Commenced