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COMMITMENTS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Other Provisions, Contingent Liabilities And Contingent Assets [Abstract] |
Disclosure of maturity analysis of operating lease payments | The future aggregate minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:
| 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
No later than 1 year | $ | 44.4 |  |  | $ | 55.3 |
Later than 1 year and no later than 5 years | 118.9 |  |  | 125.6 |
Later than 5 years | 76.7 |  |  | 82.0 |
| $ | 240.0 |  |  | $ | 262.9 |
Contractual Obligation, Fiscal Year Maturity Schedule | The total contractual purchase commitments are as follows:
| 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
No later than 1 year | $ | 132.0 |  |  | $ | 118.4 |
Later than 1 year and no later than 5 years | 90.7 |  |  | 119.0 |
Later than 5 years | 0.5 |  |  | 1.7 |
| $ | 223.2 |  |  | $ | 239.1 |

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