Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
AUTHORITY (LACK OF AUTHORITY (Existence of authority elsewhere [s…
AUTHORITY
LACK OF AUTHORITY
Proper appointment+ qualified [s 6(2)(a)(i)]
Body must
Properly constituted
properly qualified
GR: decision taken all members of statutory body
CL exception: pratical necessity
Roberts
Cases
o Seven Eleven v Simelane
o Awumey v Fort Cox College
o JSC v Premier WC
Existence of authority elsewhere [s 6(2)(f)(i)]
Cited wrong authority
GR: legal validity cannot be saved by existence of a valid empowering provision
Exception: reliance on incorrect provision not deliberate
Unlawful
Cases
o Pinnacle Point Casino
o Latib v Administrator Transvaal
o Sedgefielf Ratepayers v Government
o Minister of Education v Harris
Exceeding powers s 6(2)(f)(i)
Cases
o Affordable Medicines Trust
o Maluleke v MEC
o Port Nolloth
o Bullock NO v Provincial Government
o Minister of Works v Kyalami Ridge
Unauthorised body [s 6(2)(a)(i)]
Person exercising power not entitled to by law
Unlawful delegation of power
GR: Only functionary to whom power has been given is entitled to exercise that power.
Delegation by the legislature:
Parliament not confer powers which ouster jurisdiction of Courts.
Harris
Parliament can't delegate primary legislative powers
Executive Council WC
Justice Alliance of SA
Parliament cannot confer wide discretionary powers and must give sufficient guidelines for proper implementation
• Dawood v Minister of Home Affairs
• Janse Van Rensburg v Minister of Trade and Industry
• Affordable Medicines Trust v Minister of Health.
Sub-delegation
Only expressed/ implied ceteris paribus be lawful
a. Express
Groote Schuur
b. Implied
Nature: power
Shidiack
Big consequences
Aluchem
New Clicks
Extent power transferred/ sub-delegated
Original delegee retain sufficient control?
SA Freight Consolidators
Practical Necessities
S238 c Assignment EXPRESSLY authorised by law
Acting under delegation
o S 6(2)(e)(iv)
o Hofmeyr v Minister of Justice
o Tantoush v Refugee Appeal Board
Unlawful referral
S 6(2)(i) action unconstitutional/ unlawful.
POSSIBLY s 6(2)(e)(iv)
Mlokoti
Scenematic Fourteen
Walele
Functus Officio Doctrine: Authority to vary or revoke.
perform stat obligations = exhausted power + discharge of his mandate
Immediately functus officio
SARFU Doctrine only applies to final decisions
Exceptions
Express Authority
Carlson Investments Share Block
Implied in statute
Anglo Platinum
Factors
Revocation favourable decisions
Holden
Revocation unfavourable decisions
3p impact
Pub functionaries: can revoke all invalid