Section 295: Appropriate Community – Way of life – Religion—HELD the Court was
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
295. Appropriate Community – Way of life – Religion—HELD the Court was
unable to determine the community to which the respondents were deemed
to belong for the purposes of the First Schedule to the Constitution by reference to their way of life, and religion had no bearing on the issue. Those respondents who specifically disclaimed appurtenance to the Hindu, Muslim or
Sino-Mauritian communities were declared to belong to the “residual” General Population. Carrimkhan v Lew Chin (2000).
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B. Assent