Jeffs and Others v New Zealand Dairy Production Marketing Board and Others - [1967] NZLR 1057

Administrative law — Judicial duties — Statutory Board deciding questions affecting individual rights — Financial interest — Power to delegate — Duty to consider all the evidence — Whether duty to act judicially properly discharged.

Agriculture and farming — Dairy industry — New Zealand Dairy Production and Marketing Board — Decisions on zoning matters — Whether Board disqualified by financial interest in decision — Power of delegation to hear and receive evidence on zoning questions — Whether Board required to hear and receive all the 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.