Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report on the application of the Convention, and, in particular, the texts of section 6 of the Constitution of Mauritius and of the Reform Institutions Act, 1988, supplied with the report.

Article 2, paragraph 2(c), of the Convention. The Committee notes that section 6(3)(a) of the Constitution exempts from the prohibition of forced labour any labour required in consequence of the sentence or order of a court. It would be grateful if the Government would supply, in its next report, information, including copies of relevant statutory instruments or administrative rules or regulations, on any circumstances in which labour may be exacted, in the absence of a sentence, by virtue of the order of a court.