Walsh v Social Security Commission - [1959] NZLR 1113

Destitute persons — Maintenance order — Variation — Order registered — Social Security Commission granting wife deserted wife's benefit and applying for increased maintenance — Principles upon which Magistrates' Court must act in varying order unaffected by social security legislation — Destitute Persons Act 1910, ss. 39, 47 B — Social Security Amendment Act 1950, s. 21 (1) (b)

Social security, pensions and superannuation — Deserted wife's benefit — Social Security Commission's right to apply for variation of maintenance order — Husband's personal rights not affected — Social Security Act 1938, s. 22 (2) (a) — Social Security Amendment Act 1950, s. 21 (1) (b)

Certiorari — Personal rights — Claim for certiorari maintainable by individual only if his personal or private rights affected and not merely his interest as member of public.