1992 No. 1716
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
The Mauritius Appeals to Judicial Committee Order 1992
Made 15th July 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of July 1992
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in Her by section 2 of the Mauritius Republic Act 1992, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1992 c. 45.

1 This Order may be cited as the Mauritius Appeals to Judicial Committee Order 1992 and shall be deemed to have had effect from 12th March 1992.
2 1 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council shall have and exercise the jurisdiction in respect of appeals from the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court of Mauritius that, in the law of Mauritius, is conferred on the Committee by section 81 of the Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius (in this Order referred to as “the Constitution”) which came into operation on 12th March 1992.
Act No. 48 of 1991.
2 The provisions of the Judicial Committee Act 1833 and of any rules made thereunder from time to time shall, in so far as they relate to the powers of the Committee and the procedure to be adopted with respect to proceedings before it, apply in relation to proceedings before the Committee under section 81 of the Constitution and for that purpose shall be construed with such modifications, adaptions, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary by reason of the nature of those proceedings or otherwise to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the Constitution.
1833 c. 41.
3 Without prejudice to the generality of article 2 of this Order, the Judicial Committee shall have jurisdiction—
(a) to dispose of any petition to Her Majesty for special leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council from any decision of the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court of Mauritius which was filed in the Office of the Judicial Committee on or before 12th March 1992 as if it were a petition for special leave to the Committee under section 81 of the Constitution;
(b) to continue and dispose of any pending appeal to Her Majesty in Council from any decision of the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court of Mauritius the records in which were registered in the Office of the Judicial Committee on or before that day as if it were an appeal to the Committee under section 81 of the Constitution
and to make such judgment and order thereon as they consider appropriate.
G. I. de Deney Clerk of the Privy Council

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order enables the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to exercise the jurisdiction conferred upon it by section 81 of the Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius in respect of appeals from the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court of Mauritius.