Commerce Commission v Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd - [1994] 2 NZLR 421

Commercial law — Commerce Act — Ultra vires — Whether Commerce Commission acted outside its powers conferred by the Commerce Act by instituting inquiry and publishing report — Whether power can be treated as implied by the Act — Judicature Amendment Act 1972 - Commerce Act 1986, s 25 - Securities Act 1978, s 10 - Fair Trading Act 1986, s 6.

Statutes — Interpretation — Commerce Act 1986 - Whether power to institute inquiry and publish report implied in statute — Whether power to institute inquiry incidental to, or consequential upon, what the legislature had authorised — Commerce Act 1986, s 25.