Drug and firearms law in Mauritius: statutes on record and in force

Mauritius, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2004. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Dangerous drugs Act 41/2000 of 2000. Where a field could not be sourced it is reported as unsourced rather than left to be inferred.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Mauritius picked out — Fig. — Mauritius in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Mauritius is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 2001 and the most recent from 2004.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	6 Mar 2001	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	21 Apr 2003	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	15 Dec 2004	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	24 Sep 2003	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Mauritius: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Each instrument below was located on an official register and is named exactly as that register names it, in the language of enactment.

Dangerous drugs Act 41/2000 — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

No enforcement body is named in this record for Mauritius. The bodies that would appear here are those identified on the jurisdiction's own government hosts — the police service, customs administration, prosecuting authority or dedicated drug agency, reachable under the .mu country-code domain. What was not found is a page naming the body itself. That is a gap in what is published, and it is reported as one rather than filled from a secondary account.

Ratification sequence

How a state assembled its treaty position is itself a fact about the position. Mauritius came to these instruments over 3 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 2001 and ending with the UNCAC in 2004. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 1 year, the longest the 1988 Convention at 13.

Mauritius became a party to the 1988 Convention in 2001, 13 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

On coverage, Mauritius is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Within Africa the dataset holds 53 jurisdictions, of which 6 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.

Position on the trafficking corridors

Mauritius sits on the southern route, one of the six corridors profiled here. What the corridor meets at this leg is the record set out above.

The southern route — 7 jurisdictions, carrying heroin. The legs either side of Mauritius in the reporting are Mozambique and Seychelles. Across the corridor as a whole, 5 of the 7 legs are party to all four instruments, 1 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, 2 carry no confirmed national instrument , and 1 is under increased monitoring. Mauritius clears all three of those checks. The route page sets out every leg.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Mauritius is recorded as Not listed . Nothing here is a finding about Mauritius's financial controls; it records only that neither statement names it. What each status entails is set out on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Mauritius

Which drug-control conventions has Mauritius ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 6 Mar 2001, the UNTOC on 21 Apr 2003, the UNCAC on 15 Dec 2004, the Firearms Protocol on 24 Sep 2003.

Is Mauritius on the FATF grey list?

No. Mauritius appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Mauritius?

Dangerous drugs Act 41/2000, confirmed against the UNODC legal library.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Mauritius that is the UNODC legal library. Each link resolves to the register's own copy, not to a summary of it.

What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?

Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Mauritius, 1 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.

Why does the ratification date matter?

The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Mauritius's earliest of these commitments dates from 2001, its most recent from 2004; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
Dangerous drugs Act 41/2000: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.