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Je ne vois pas comment une commission statutaire, possédant une compétence déterminée, aurait le pouvoir de déclarer invalide le certificat qui a été produit auprès d’elle. Le contrôle de l’exercice des pouvoirs administratifs, lorsqu’il existe, n’est pas dévolu à une commission statutaire à moins qu’une disposition législative expresse ne le lui confère.
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I should further point out that the Board in the present case, upon the filing of the certificate, had no option, in view of the wording of s. 21, save to rule that it could not deal with the appellant’s request for relief under s. 15 in the way in which it did. I do not see how a statutory board, with a defined jurisdiction, would have any authority to declare invalid the certificate which had been filed with it. Control of the exercise of administrative powers, where it exists, does not rest with a statutory board, in the absence of express statutory power conferred upon it. I say this because in the present case the attack upon the action of the two ministers is made by way of an appeal from the Board’s decision on the ground that it was not precluded from exercising its s. 15 powers in this case.
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