Sugar Cane Planters Trust Act 1997 (No. 3 of 1997). Country/Territory Mauritius Document type Legislation Date 1997 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to provide for the setting up and management of a Sugar Cane Planters Trust. Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Plant production Institution Agricultural development Sugar cane/sugar beet Geographical area Africa, Eastern Africa, Indian Ocean, Small Island Developing States Abstract There is established for the purposes of this Act the Sugar Cane Planters Trust which shall be a body corporate. The objects of the Trust shall be to: manage the state lands leased to the Trust and on which sugar cane will be cultivated on behalf of planters; hire the services of contractors for the purposes of land clearing, and land preparation and for planting, harvesting, loading and transporting cane to sugar factories; invest in diversification schemes related to cane production, such as interline growing of specific food crops; maintain the financial control of all operations related to cane production; manage, monies derived form the sales of canes and distribute to planters profits from cane cultivation according to the factory area where the sugar cane is cultivated. The Minister shall appoint a Board of Trustees to manage the Trust and there shall be a Secretary Manage and a technical Advisor of the Trust. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make such regulations as it thinks for the purposes of this Act. (17 sections) Full text English References - Legislation Repealed by Sugar Cane Planters Trust (Repeal) Act 2010 (No. 5 of 2010). Legislation | Mauritius | 2010 Keyword: Plant production, Institution, Agricultural development, Sugar cane/sugar beet Source: FAO, FAOLEX