Laws.Africa Editor Guide
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  • Welcome
  • Getting started
    • Lesson plan
    • Signing up
    • Digitising legislation
    • What is Akoma Ntoso
    • Terminology guide
  • Managing Works
    • Creating and editing works
      • Working with commencements
    • Deleting a document
    • Amending works
      • Creating the amending work
      • Linking the amendment
      • Creating a new document at the new point in time
      • Applying the amendments
      • Annotating the amendments
      • Example
      • Exercise
      • Consolidating the annotations
        • Simple example
        • Complicated example
    • Bulk imports (spreadsheet)
  • How-tos
    • Tasks
    • Importing a document
      • The importer
    • Cleaning up an import
    • Going back to a previous version of a document
    • Fixing all-caps headings
    • Working with tables
      • Table errors
    • Working with links
    • Working with italicised terms
    • Inserting an image
    • Inserting special characters
    • Resolving editor warnings
    • Making comments
    • Inserting editorial notes
    • Changing a document's date
    • Changing a document's short title or language
    • Search and rescue
    • How to handle different language documents
    • How to mark up defined terms which do not occur in a Definitions section
    • Very complicated amendments
      • Research
      • Undo some amendments?
      • Update the timeline
      • Create the tasks
      • Apply the amendments
  • Markup guide
    • Introduction
    • Marking up the structure
    • Preface, Long title, and Preamble
    • Headings
    • Marking up Schedules / Annexes
    • Marking up annotations
    • Marking up tables
    • Marking up links
    • Marking up images
    • Marking up footnotes
    • Marking up formatting
    • Marking up insertions and deletions
    • Keyword reference
  • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewer checklist
    • Signing off a work
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  • Administration
    • Site settings
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Mauritius

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Last updated 2 years ago

Documents for import

Please use Word documents for import, and PDF documents to compare against.

PDF and Word documents are saved here

Cleaning up imports

Things to look out for in Mauritius

Annotations

Please do not change the wording of annotations. These should be left as they are and marked up as a remark/annotation.

{{*[S. 2 amended by s. 3 of Act 21 of 2004; s. 3 of Act 34 of 2011 w.e.f. 1 January 2012.]}}

Certain annotations will appear in round brackets, such as in the example below. These should be marked up as an annotation/remark.

{{*[Subsec. (6) not in operation.]}}

Blank sections, subsections and paragraphs etc.

Some portions of Mauritius documents will be blank or empty. Below is an example of one such instance.

When a element that does not usually have a heading is blank, mark it up as it appears in the PDF. Blank paragraph (d) in the image above should be marked up as follows:

PARA (d)
    -

Multiple blank subsections/ paragraphs or a range of blank subsections/ paragraphs, should be marked up as follows.

SUBSEC (2) 
    -
SUBSEC (3) 
    -
SUBSEC (4) 
    -

Below is an example of a blank section and how it should be marked up.

SEC. 9 - ***

Below is an example of multiple blank sections or a range of blank sections, and how they should be marked up.

SEC 30. - ***
SEC 31. - ***
SEC 32. - ***
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N2oRYyCLIXVhtA5MNL-JDV7IPlyRGGov?usp=share_link
The highlited annotation should be marked up as shown below.
How this annotation should be marked up is shown below.
Please ignore the warning that will appear.