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(1) There shall be a Director of Audit, whose office shall be a public office and shall be appointed by the Public Service commission, acting after consultation with the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.
(2) The public accounts of Mauritius and of all courts of law and all authorities and officers of the Government shall be audited and reported on by the Director of Audit and for that purpose the Director of Audit or any person authorised by him in that behalf shall have access to all books, records, reports and other documents relating to those accounts:
Provided that, if it is so prescribed in the case of any body corporate directly established by law, the accounts of that body corporate shall be audited and reported on by such person as may be prescribed.
(3) The Director of Audit shall submit his reports to the Minister responsible for finance, who shall cause them to be laid before the Assembly.
(4) In the exercise of his functions under this Constitution, the Director of Audit shall not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or authority.
(1) Subject to this section, a person holding an office to which this section applies shall vacate that office on attaining the retiring age.
(2) Any such person may be removed from office only for inability to discharge the functions of his office (whether arising from infirmity of body or mind or any other cause) or for misbehaviour and shall not be so removed except in accordance with this section.
(3) Any such person shall be removed from office by the Governor-General if the question of his removal from that office has been referred to a tribunal appointed under subsection (4) and the tribunal has recommended to the Governor-General that he ought to be removed from office for inability as aforesaid or for misbehaviour.
(4) Where the appropriate Commission considers that the question of removing any such person ought to be investigated-
(a) the Governor-General, acting in his own deliberate judgement, shall appoint a tribunal which shall consist of a chairman and not less than 2 other members, being persons who hold or have held office as a. judge of a court having unlimited jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters in some part of the Commonwealth or a court having jurisdiction in appeals from such a court; and
(b) that tribunal shall enquire into the matter and report on the facts to the Governor-General and recommend to the Governor-General whether he ought to be removed under this section.
(5) Where the question of removing any such person has been referred to a tribunal under this section, the Governor-General, acting in his own deliberate judgement, may suspend him from performing the functions of his office and any such suspension may at any time be revoked by the Governor-General, acting in his own deliberate judgement, and shall in any case cease to have effect if the tribunal recommends to the Governor-General that he should not be removed.
(6) The offices to which this section applies are those of Electoral Commissioner, Director of Public Prosecutions, Commissioner of Police and Director of Audit.
(7) In this section "the appropriate Commission" means-
(a) In relation to a person holding the office of Electoral Commissioner or Director of Public Prosecutions, the Judicial and Legal Service Commission;
(b) In relation to a person holding the office of Commissioner of Police, the Police Service Commission;
(c) In relation to a person holding the office of Director of Audit, the Public Service Commission.
(8) The retiring age for holders of the offices mentioned in subsection (6) shall be 60 or such other age as may be prescribed:
Provided that a provision of any law, to the extent that it alters the age at which persons holding such offices shall vacate their offices, shall not have effect in relation to any such person after his appointment unless he consents to its having effect.
(1) There shall be paid to the holders of the offices to which this section applies salaries and such allowances as may be prescribed.
(2) The salaries and any allowances payable to the holders of the offices to which this section applies shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
(3) Any alteration to the salary payable to any person holding any office to which this section applies or to his terms of office, other than allowances, that is to his disadvantage shall not have effect in relation to that person after his appointment unless he consents to its having effect.
(4) Where a person's salary or terms of office depend upon his option, the salary or terms for which he opts shall, for the purposes of subsection (3), be deemed to be more advantageous to him than any others for which he might have opted.
(5) This section applies to the office of Governor-General, chairman or other members of the Electoral Boundaries Commission or of the Electoral Supervisory Commission, Electoral Commissioner, Director of Public Prosecutions, Chief justice, ' Senior Puisne judge, Puisne judge, appointed member of the judicial and Legal Service Commission, chairman or other member of the Public Service Commission, appointed member of the Police Service Commission, Commissioner of Police, Ombudsman or Director of Audit.
(1) All debt charges for which Mauritius is liable shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "debt charges" includes interest, sinking fund charges, the repayment or amortisation of debt, and all expenditure in connection with the raising of loans on the security of the revenues of Mauritius or the Consolidated Fund and the service and redemption of debt thereby created.
(1) Where under any law any person or authority has a discretion-
(a) to decide whether or not any pensions benefits shall be granted; or
(b) to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any such benefits that have been granted,
those benefits shall be granted and may not be withheld, reduced in amount or suspended unless the appropriate Commission concurs in the refusal to grant the benefits or, as the case may be, in the decision to withhold them, reduce them in amount or suspend them.
(2) Where the amount of any pensions benefits that may be granted to any person is not fixed by law, the amount of the benefits to be granted to him shall be the greatest amount for which he is eligible unless the appropriate Commission concurs in his being granted benefits of a smaller amount.
(3) The appropriate Commission shall not concur under subsection (l) or (2) inaction taken on the ground that any person who holds or has held the office of Electoral Commissioner, Director of Public Prosecutions, judge of the Supreme Court, Commissioner of Police, Ombudsman or Director of Audit has been guilty of misbehaviour unless he has been removed from office by reason of such misbehaviour.
(4) In this section, "the appropriate Commission" means-
(a) in the case of benefits for which any person may be eligible in respect of the service in the public service of a person who, immediately before he ceased to be a public officer, was subject to the disciplinary control of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission or that have been granted in respect of such service, the judicial and Legal Service Commission;
(b) in the case of benefits for which any person may be eligible in respect of the service in the public service of a person who, immediately before he ceased to be a public officer, was a member of the Police Force, the Police Service Commission; and
(c) in any other case, the Public Service Commission.
(5) Any person who is entitled to the payment of any pensions benefits and who is ordinarily resident outside Mauritius may, within a reasonable time after he has received that payment, remit the whole of it (free from any deduction, charge or tax made or levied in respect of its remission) to any country of his choice outside Mauritius.
