Lower Hutt City Corporation v Martin - [1947] NZLR 152

Municipal Corporations — Powers — Subdivision of Land — Local Act authorizing Council to impose Conditions as to Drainage on Consent to Subdivision — Construction by Owner of "All public and private drains for the disposal of sewage . . . from the said land" — No Power to Compel Owner to construct Public Drain — Whether Conditions imposed as to Sewage Drain unreasonable — Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, s 33 (4) — Lower Hutt City Empowering and Rates Consolidation Act, 1941 (Local), s 5.

Statute — Interpretation — Statute not open to Test of Reasonableness — Right of Appeal from Local Authority to Statutory Board — Test applicable to Council's Administration.