Glenharrow Holdings Ltd v Attorney-General - [2001] 1 NZLR 578

Mining — Mining licence — Applications under transitional provisions of superseding or supervening legislation — Whether vesting of Crown interests in minerals to other entities affects current privileges held by licence holder — Ngai Tahu (Pounamu Vesting) Act 1997.

Statutes — Interpretation — Terms and conditions of licences — Effect of superseding or supervening legislation upon current holders of mining licences — Whether purposive interpretation to be applied to subsequent licensing applications where literal interpretation might produce absurd result — Ngai Tahu (Pounamu Vesting) Act 1997. — Crown Minerals Act 1991, ss 23, 32, 107, 111, 112 and 119