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This Act may be cited as the Food Act 2022.

No person shall operate a food business unless he is registered under section 6 of the Business Registration Act.

means any undertaking, whether for profit or not and whether public or private, for the purpose of carrying any activity related to any stage of manufacture, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, import, distribution of food; and

includes food services, catering services or sale of food;

means any substance meant for human consumption; and

this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

I do hereby proclaim that the said Act shall come into operation on 15 June 2024.

These regulations may be cited as the Food Regulations 2024.

these regulations shall come into operation on 9 September 2024.

Every person who is engaged in the sale, preparation, manufacture, serving, packing, cooking, carriage, handling or delivery of any food for sale for human consumption shall, at all times, have in his possession a valid Food Handler’s Certificate.

No person or food business operator shall sell, serve, manufacture, produce, prepare, cook, pack, store, handle, or keep any food for sale for human consumption –

in any place in which an animal is kept.

“egg” means an egg of a bird, including a poultry and duck –

which has not been incubated and whose shell is clean, neither cracked nor broken;

No person shall import, store, offer for sale or sell egg or egg product or food containing egg or egg product unless it complies with the standards specified in regulations 106 to 108.

“pre-packed food” means food, including cooked and uncooked, which has been packed in a container before being sold or offered for sale but does not include food in –

No person shall import, manufacture, process, pack, store, offer for sale or sell any pre-packed food unless there is, on the package, a label conspicuously showing the following particulars in English or French language –

the country of origin;

the name and address of the manufacturer or importer or packer or distributor;

the best-before date or use-by date shall be durably printed using laser or inkjet printers on the package or

No person shall use or cause to be used in the preparation, packaging, storage, delivery or exposure for sale of food, any container that has been used for any other purpose.

foods containing eggs, egg products, beans, nuts or other protein rich foods, such as quiche and soy products;

No person shall use in the manufacture of food or sell any liquid egg unless it is –

does not include food in – (a) bulk cargo containers; (b) pallet overwraps; (c) crates; (d) craft and vehicles;

Regulation 4 shall not apply to any – (a) package of food if the food is of the nature, quality, quantity, origin, or brand requested by the purchaser and weighed, counted or measured in the presence of the purchaser; or

other than for food products listed in the First Schedule;

in which no putrefaction and no development of the embryo has begun; and

No food business operator shall – (a) reuse single service containers, cutlery or other article intended to be used in the making, preparing, keeping, selling or supplying of any food;

“perishable food” includes the following food that may contain food poisoning bacteria and are capable of

The food business operator of any premises where food is prepared, packed, transported, displayed, stored, served or sold for human consumption, shall ensure that any perishable food is kept in such temperature control as may be appropriate to avoid –

This Act may be cited as the Animal Welfare Act 2013.

“animal” means a living vertebrate, other than a human being;

Subject to subsection (2), any person who –

being the owner of an animal, fails to provide the animal with sufficient food, drink or shelter;

keeps or confines an animal in a cage or other similar structure which is too small to provide the animal with a reasonable opportunity for its natural movement;

this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

Every person who becomes the owner of a domestic pet, other than a dog, shall, not later than 30 days on which he becomes the owner, cause it to be registered with the Society and pay such registration fee as may be prescribed.

“domestic pet” means a domestic animal, other than an animal kept by a person for commercial or recreational purposes or for a person’s occupation or employment;

“Society” means the Mauritius Society for Animal Welfare

Different dates may be fixed for the coming into operation of different sections of this Act.

The Animal Welfare Act is amended –

by inserting, after paragraph (a), the following new paragraph –

by deleting the words “15,000 rupees” and “6 months”

The DVS shall implement the National Livestock Identification System whereby all farmers, farms, slaughterhouses, quarantine facilities, isolation facilities, game handling facilities, apiaries, breeding facilities and any other prescribed establishment shall be registered with the DVS.

means a compound specifically reserved for the rearing or production of cattle, deer in feedlot, goat, sheep, pig, poultry or hived bee colony, fish, mollusk, crustaceans, amphibians; and

“DVS” means the Division of Veterinary Services of the Ministry;

“animal” means any terrestrial or aquatic vertebrate or invertebrate;

means any terrestrial or aquatic animal disease listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health; and

includes such other animal disease as may be prescribed;

selon les provisions de l’Animal Diseases Act 1925, comme amendé par la Finances (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024,

Volailles (personnes possédant plus de 25 têtes des races commerciales provenant des écloseries seulement)

Date: 18 novembre 2025

Without prejudice to any environmental law, nuisance includes—

any animals so kept as to be injurious to health;

an animal or bird, or any carcase which is so kept or allowed to remain as to be dangerous to public health.

Where the Sanitary Authority is satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, he shall serve a notice in the form set out in the Second Schedule—

The Animal Welfare Act is amended –

The Animal Diseases Act is amended, in section 2 –

The Animal Welfare Act is amended –

The Food Act 2022 is amended, in section 2 –

by repealing section 32A and replacing it by the following

This Act may be cited as the Animal Diseases Act.

“veterinary officer” means the Government Veterinary Officer or any veterinary surgeon appointed by the President for the purposes of this Act;

The veterinary officer, if satisfied that a disease exists on any land or place, shall declare any defined place or area of that land to be an infected area.

Where the veterinary officer is not satisfied that a disease exists but considers that there is reasonable suspicion that a disease may exist in any area, he may declare that area to be a suspected area.

Such declaration shall be served upon the owner or person in charge of the animals and of the place, and, if the Chief Agricultural Officer so determines, shall also be notified in the Gazette and in 3 daily newspapers.

The veterinary officer shall, after consultation with the Chief Agricultural Officer, issue, in respect of any area declared to be an infected or suspected area, such orders as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act or any regulations made under it.

The Minister may make regulations for carrying the provisions and purposes of this Act into effect

within any infected or suspected area—

for the branding, isolating, inoculating, disinfecting, treating, testing, dipping, spraying, muzzling, removing or destroying of any animal;

for prohibiting or regulating the movements of animals and persons into, out of or within such infected or suspected area;

This website contains the Revised Laws of Mauritius which have been updated up to 30 June 2017.

You are reminded that the Revised Laws of Mauritius, as published by LexisNexis (Pte) Ltd., South Africa in September 2016, including any Supplements published thereafter, are the sole authoritative text of the laws of Mauritius.

III* – Section 31(1) and (3) of the Act came into operation on 01 October 2025.