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With the promulgation of the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority Act on 19 March 2012, the Mauritius Cane Industry Authority (MCIA) was created as a body corporate and became operational. It took over the responsibilities and functions of the following six ex-Providing Service Institutions (SPIs): (1) Ex-Cane Planters and Millers Arbitration and Control Board (2) Ex-Farmers Service Corporation (3) Ex-Mauritius Sugar Authority (4) Ex-Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (5) Ex-Mauritius Sugar Terminal Corporation (6) Ex-Sugar Planters Mechanical Pool Corporation The Mauritius Cane Industry Authority Act (No. 40 of 2011) provided for the merging of the six cess-providing institutions and their respective Acts have been repealed as from 19 March 2012 by virtue of Section 64 of the MCIA Act 2011. The MCIA became the apex organisation of the sugarcane industry and

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