Mauritius
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
Mauritius’s Anti-Personnel Mines (Prohibition) Act (2001) provides:
Notwithstanding the Explosives Act but subject to subsection (2),
(a) no person shall use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain, transfer to any one, directly or indirectly, any anti-personnel mine;
(b) no person shall assist, encourage or induce, in any way, any other person to engage in any of the acts prohibited under paragraph (a).
Mauritius, Anti-Personnel Mines (Prohibition) Act, 2001, Article 4.1.
Mauritius participated in the Oslo negotiations in September 1997 which led to the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines and voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996 and 1997.
Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World, available at http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?act=submit&pqs_year=1999&pqs_type=lm&pqs_report=mauritius&pqs_section=.
