Seataste Products Ltd v Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries - [1995] 2 NZLR 449

Administrative law — Judicial review — Whether Director-General had taken into account irrelevant material — Whether Director-General bound to adhere to practice adopted in the past — Whether delay in coming to a conclusion was so great that decision was irreparably flawed — Whether approach adopted by Director-General was unreasonable — Whether basis for intervention by Court was circumscribed by existing categories.

Statutes — Interpretation — Statutory rules and regulations — Whether regulations had been impliedly repealed, were ultra vires the statute under which they were made, or were inconsistent with or repugnant to a subsequent statute — Acts Interpretation Act 1924, ss 20 and 20A — Fishing Industry Board Act 1963, s 10 — Fishing Industry Board Amendment Act 1994, s 5 — Meat Act 1964, ss 51, 53, 77 and 83 — Meat Act 1981, ss 19, 25, 26, 28 and 49 — Meat Amendment Act 1987, s 3 — Fish (Packing for Export) Regulations 1977 (SR 1977/161) regs 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.