Northland Milk Vendors Association Inc v Northern Milk Ltd - [1988] 1 NZLR 530

Administrative law — Judicial review — Interim orders — Milk processor decided to reduce number of milk vendors and to reduce days of home milk delivery before New Zealand Milk Authority had determined standards in relation to home milk delivery — Milk Vendors Association and a milk vendor sought interim order to restrain processor from implementing its decision pending judicial review of that decision — Whether interim order should be made — Whether milk vendor had standing — Judicature Amendment Act 1972, s 8 - Milk Act 1988, ss 10 and 16.

Statutes — Interpretation — Home milk delivery — Gap in new legislation — Whether Court may fill gap in an Act in order to make the Act work as Parliament must have intended — Milk Act 1988, ss 10 and 16.