Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIVY COUNCIL (LIMITATION OF APPEALS) ACT 1968 - SECT 3

(1)

Special leave of appeal to Her Majesty in Council from a decision of the High Court may be asked only in a matter in which the decision of the High Court was a decision that:

(a)

was given on appeal from a decision of the Supreme Court of a State given otherwise than in the exercise of federal jurisdiction; and

(b)

did not involve the application or interpretation of:

(i)

the Constitution;

(ii)

a law made by the Parliament; or

(iii)

an instrument (including an ordinance, rule, regulation or by-law) made under a law made by the Parliament.

(2)

The last preceding subsection does not apply in respect of a decision of the High Court given in a proceeding that was commenced in a court before the commencement of this Act.