Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Jurisdiction removed
Judicial appeal of final resort has been assumed by other bodies in some current and former Commonwealth realms as well as in some Commonwealth monarchies:

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Section Title: Jurisdiction removed
Table Section Text: Judicial appeal of final resort has been assumed by other bodies in some current and former Commonwealth realms as well as in some Commonwealth monarchies:

Realm	Date	Abolishing statute	New court of final appeal	Notes

Irish Free State	1933	Constitution (Amendment No. 22) Act 1933	Supreme Court	Ireland left the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949 when the Republic of Ireland was declared.

Canada	1949	An Act to Amend the Supreme Court Act, S.C. 1949 (2nd sess.), c. 37, s. 3	Supreme Court	Criminal appeals ended in 1933.

India	1950	Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act 1949	Supreme Court	The Supreme Court replaced the Federal Court on 28 January 1950.

South Africa	1950	Privy Council Appeals Act, 1950	Supreme Court Appellate Division	Replaced by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 1997

Pakistan	1950	Privy Council (Termination of Jurisdiction) Act 1950	Federal Court	The 1956 Constitution replaced the Federal Court with the Supreme Court

Australia (federal courts)	1968	Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968	High Court

Guyana	1970	Privy Council (Termination of Appeals) Act 1970	Court of Appeal	Since 2005 the Caribbean Court of Justice hears appeals from Guyana's Court of Appeal.

Lesotho	1970	Court of Appeal

Ceylon	1972	1972 Constitution	Supreme Court	Also renamed the country Sri Lanka

Malaysia	1985	Constitution (Amendment) Act 1983	Supreme Court	The Supreme Court was called the Federal Court until the 1985 change and reverted to the old name in 1994.

Australia (state courts)	1986	Australia Act 1986	High Court	Also heard appeals from the Supreme Court of Nauru until 2018.

Singapore	1994	Judicial Committee (Repeal) Act 1994	Court of Appeal

Hong Kong	1997	Hong Kong Reunification Ordinance	Court of Final Appeal	United Kingdom transfer the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China after 1 July 1997.

The Gambia	1998	1997 Constitution of the Gambia	Supreme Court of the Gambia	A restructure of the Gambian judiciary by Yahya Jammeh, which made the Supreme Court of The Gambia the highest court instead of being below the Court of Appeal of the Gambia as was the case under the 1970 Constitution of the Gambia.

New Zealand	2004	Supreme Court Act 2003	Supreme Court

Barbados	2005	Caribbean Court of Justice

Belize	2010	Belize Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act	Caribbean Court of Justice

Dominica	2015	Constitution of Dominica (Amendment) Act 2014	Caribbean Court of Justice

Sentence(s)

South Africa abolished the right of appeal to the Privy Council from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1950 under the terms of the Privy Council Appeals Act, 1950.

final_sentence: South Africa abolished the right of appeal to the Privy Council from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1950 under the terms of the Privy Council Appeals Act, 1950.