2. The proceeding provided for under this Article shall be instituted within two months of the enactment, publication, directive, decision or action complained of, or in the absence thereof, of the day in which it came to the knowledge of the complainant, as the case may be; 3. The Court shall have no jurisdiction under this Article where an Act, regulation, directive, decision or action has been reserved under this Treaty to an institution of a Partner State”. 4. The above quotation of Article 27 of the Treaty shows that: (1) the initial jurisdiction of the Court is confined to the interpretation, and application of the Treaty, and (2) the subsequent extended jurisdiction of the Court will include original, appellate, human rights and other matters. 57. In SHABTAI ROSENNE’s: The Law and Practice of the International Court, [supra], it was observed that:“…In the event of a dispute as to whether the Court has jurisdiction, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court. For that purpose, the Court allows preliminary objection procedure to be employed for several different types of disputes as to whether the Court has jurisdiction…..The matter can also arise and be decided at any stage of a case, in quality of ‘a plea”. 19

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