Northern Totalisator and Allied Employees Assn (Inc) v Industrial Unions' Registrar and Others - [1976] 2 NZLR 22

Work and labour — Industrial and conciliation Acts — Refusal by Registrar of Industrial Unions to register a separate union — If refusal based on error of law the confirming decision of the Industrial Court would not be protected — Industrial Relations Act 1973, s 47(6).

Statutes — Interpretation — The expression "a then existing union" in s 168(2) of the Industrial Relations Act 1973 must be read as including the plural — Acts Interpretation Act 1924, s 4.

Statutes — Rule of interpretation — Phrase in the singular to be used as including the plural — Acts Interpretation Act 1924, s 4.