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(c) provision is made by a law applicable to that taking of possession or acquisition (i) for the payment of adequate compensation; and (ii) securing to any person having an interest in or right over the property aright of access to the Supreme Court, whether direct or on appeal from any other authority, for the determination of his interest or right, the legality of the taking of possession or acquisition of the property, interest or right, and the amount of any compensation to which he is entitled, and for the purpose of obtaining payment of that compensation. Amended by [Act No. 14 of 1983] (2) No person who is entitled to compensation under this section, other than a resident of Mauritius, shall be prevented from remitting, within a reasonable time after he has received any amount of that compensation, the whole of that amount (free from any deduction, charge or tax made or levied in respect of its remission) to any country of his choice outside Mauritius. Amended by [Act No. 14 of 1983] (3) (4) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of subsection (2) to the extent that the law in question authorises (a) the attachment, by order of a court, of any amount of compensation to which a person is entitled in satisfaction of the judgment of a court or pending the determination of civil proceedings to which he is a party; (b) the imposition of reasonable restrictions on the manner in which any amount of compensation is to be remitted; or (c) the imposition of any deduction, charge or tax that is made or levied generally in respect of the remission of money from Mauritius and that is not discriminatory within the meaning of section 16(3). Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of subsection (1) (a) to the extent that the law in question makes provision for the taking of possession or acquisition of property (i) in satisfaction of any tax, rate or due; (ii) by way of penalty for breach of the law or forfeiture inconsequence of a breach of the law or in consequence of the inability of a drugtrafficker or a person who has enriched himself by fraudulent and/or corrupt means to show that he has acquired the property by lawful means;

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