“LAW-MAKING AT ITS WORST”
Policing Clause In Recent Acts (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 15. Every major act now passed in New Zealand gives to departmental officials wide powers which abolish the protection the public are entitled to from the Courts, Mr P. G. Hillyer, an Auckland lawyer, told the Constitutional Society last night. These powers were conferred ii a clause which gave departmental officials authority to make regulations which they considered necessary to make the provisions of an act effective, he said. Every piece of legislation in two recent years had had this clause inserted. Such regulations were not subject to debate, no-one had the right to object to them, and they had the force of law, “There is law-making at its worst,” said Mr Hillyer.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29232, 16 June 1960, Page 11
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