Kodakan Pillai, G.S.N. V. Mudanayake, P.B.

[IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL]

1953 Present : Lord Normand, Lord Oaksey, Lord Tucker, Lord Asquith of
Bishopstone and Lord Cohen

G. S. N. KODAKAN PILLAI, Appellant, and P. B. MUDANAYAKE et al., Respondents

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL NO. 7 OF 1952

S. C. 368-Application for Writ of Certiorari

Citizenship Act, No. 18 of 1948, ss. 4 and 5-Parliamentary Elections Amendment Act, No. 48 of 1949, s. 3, amending Parliamentary Elections Order in Council, 1946, s. 4 {1) (a)-Discriminatory legislation ?-Constitution Order in Council, 1946, s. 29 (2) (b)-Indian and Pakistani Residents (Citizenship) Act, No. 3 of 1949- Judicial notice of reports of Parliamentary Commissions-Maxim Omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta-Applicability to Act of a legislature.

Sections 4 and 5 of the Citizenship Act, No. 18 of 1948, and section 3 of the Parliamentary Elections Amendment Act, No. 48 of 1949, which amends section 4 (1) (a) of the Parliamentary Elections Order in Council, 1946, constitute legislation on citizenship and cannot be said to be legislation making persons of the Indian Tamil community liable to a disability to which persons of other communi

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