Waitakere City Council v Waitemata Electricity Shareholders Society Inc - [1996] 2 NZLR 735

Administrative law — Judicial review — Application to prohibit society from amending its rules — Application for declaration that proposed changes unlawful and invalid as a breach of contract or trust — Scope of a society's power to amend its own rules — Extent of application of administrative law grounds for judicial review — Energy Companies (Power New Zealand Ltd) Vesting Order 1994 (SR 1994/123) — Energy Companies Act 1992, s 47(1) — Judicature Amendment Act 1972, ss 3 and 4.

Corporate bodies — Incorporated societies — Rules — Application to prohibit society from amending its rules — Application for declaration that proposed changes unlawful and invalid as breach of contract or trust — Scope of society's power to amend its own rules.