Auckland Electric Power Board v Attorney-General - [1991] 1 NZLR 288

Administrative law — Electric power board — Eventual replacement by public company — Ministerial power to appoint additional members to board — Whether in appointing additional members to the board the aim of the Minister that the appointees would later become directors of the public company replacing the board meant that the appointments were invalidated — Electric Power Boards Amendment Act 1990, s 11.

Statutes — Interpretation — Whether members of a power board are eligible to be appointed as first directors of the public company proposed to replace the board — Electric Power Boards Amendment Act 1990, ss 11 and 17.