Criminal Code Act.

This Act approves the Penal Code of Mauritus. The Code sets out the criminal offences in Mauritius as well as the penalties for violation of these offences. The Code consists of 387 articles divided into four Books: penalties (book I); persons punishable, excusable or responsible (book II); crimes and misdemeanours (book III); and contraventions (book IV).
Under the offences against property chapter (book III, title II, chapter II), the Penal Code deals in particular with: damage of trees; damage of crops; with the damage of agricultural production (art. 356), defining a punishment for any person who cuts or pulls out of the ground any grain, forage, fruit, vegetable, or any other produce, knowing it belongs to another person; damaging agricultural instrument, punishing the breaking or destruction of any agricultural instrument, park or pen for cattle, or of any keeper’s hut (art. 357); poisoning, injuring and killing an animal, punishing any person who poisons any horse, or other animal used for draught, riding or carrying burden, or any horned cattle, sheep, goat, pig, watch-dog, poultry, or any fish in any pond, tank, reservoir or river (art. 358, 359 and 360). It also contains the punishment for any person that, having the possession or charge of any animal or cattle, suspected of being infected with any contagious disorder, does not give immediate notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police (art. 366); and for the person who in defiance of the prohibition given by lawful authority, allows his infected animals or cattle to communicate with others (art. 367).
In addition, the Code foresees under crimes against public peace (book III, title I, chapter III) sanctions for selling adulterated liquor (art. 237).