Jeffs and Others v New Zealand Dairy Production and Marketing Board and Others - [1966] NZLR 73

Administrative law — Judicial duties — Body charged with judicial duties — Whether empowered to delegate to committee as administrative function duty of hearing evidence and submissions and making report — Whether bound to disclose committee's report — Whether members of body all bound to hear whole of evidence — Circumstances under which such a body not disqualified by financial interest.

Agriculture and farming — Dairy industry — New Zealand Dairy Production and Marketing Board — Whether power to make zoning orders transferred to board — Whether such powers exercisable without the making of new regulations — Whether board disqualified by financial interest in nature of order made — Whether board may delegate to committee duty of hearing evidence and submissions and furnishing report concerning application for zoning order — Whether members of board bound to hear whole of evidence — Dairy Production and Marketing Board Act 1961, ss. 13, 32, 40, 71 — Dairy Factory Supply Regulations 1936 (Reprint) (S.R. 1963/147), Reg. 5.