[IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL]

1954 Present: The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cohen and
Mr. L. M. D. de Silva

E. L. SENANAYAKE, Appellant, and H. M. NAVARATNE et al.,
Respondents

PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL NO. 17 OF 1954

Election Petition 3 of 1952, Kandy
 

Privy Council-Election petition-Appeal to Supreme Court-Decision of Supreme Court is final --No appeal to Privy Council-Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Order in Council, 1946, ss. 81, 82, 82 A.-D, as amended by Act No. 19 of 1948.

Where a party who is dissatisfied with the determination of an election judge prefers an appeal to the Supreme Court on questions of law under section 82A of the Parliamentary Elections Order in Council, no appeal will be entertained by the Privy Council from the decision of the Supreme Court, even if the jurisdiction of the election judge to deal with the subject-matter at issue is challenged.

" The peculiar nature of the jurisdiction and the importance in the public interest of securing at an early date a final determination of the matter and the representation in Parliament of the constituency affected make it clear that it was not the intention of the Order-in-Council