Section 330: Sufficient interest – Tax payer—The plaintiff claimed that the tax
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.
330. Sufficient interest – Tax payer—The plaintiff claimed that the tax
paid by him was used by the State to provide grants to Catholic colleges
which practiced discrimination in the recruitment of pupils.
HELD the plaintiff did not have sufficient interest. There is no connection
between the status of the plaintiff as a tax payer and the precise nature of
the alleged constitutional infringement, namely discrimination under section 16 of the Constitution or impediment in sending to a RCEA school a
child of whom the plaintiff “is parent or guardian by reason only that the
school is not a school established or maintained by the Government”. Tengur
v Ministry of Education and SR (2002).