Re NSW Grains Board [2002] NSWSC 913

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Re NSW Grains Board [2002] NSWSC 913 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division Corporations List FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4319/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 16/09/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 3 October 2002

Murray Campbell Smith as Administrator of New South Wales Grains Board - Plaintiff Graham Lawrence - First Defendant John Francis Joseph Fitzgerald - Second Defendant PARTIES : Dr Kevin P Sheridan - Third Defendant Scott Davenport - Fourth Defendant Jack Kheir - Fifth Defendant Lee White - Sixth Defendant JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J

Mr T F Bathurst QC/Mr T D Castle - Plaintiff COUNSEL : Mr J T Johnson - First and Second Defendants Mr I Mescher - Third and Fourth Defendants Mr D P Robinson - Fifth and Sixth Defendants Atanaskovic Hartnell - Plaintiff SOLICITORS : Carroll & O'Dea - First and Second Defendants Crown Solicitor's Office - Third and Fourth Defendants Holding Redlich - Fifth and Sixth Defendants CATCHWORDS : CORPORATIONS - interpretation of Corporations Law of NSW - meaning of "corporation" - meaning of "public authority" - scope of definition of "public authority of the Commonwealth or a State" - STATUTES - interpretation - Corporations Law continued by grain marketing legislation - interaction with secrecy provisions of audit legislation Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act 1999 (Cth) Corporations Act 1989 (Cth) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Regulation 2001 Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001 Corporations Law LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations (New South Wales) Act 1990 Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001 (Cth) Government Guarantees Act 1934 Grain Marketing Act 1991 Grain Marketing Amendment Act 2001 Grain Marketing Regulation 2001 Interpretation Act 1987 Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 Search Warrants Act 1985 Adler v Qintex Group Management Services Pty Ltd (1996) 22 ACSR 446 Attorney-General v Breckler (1999) 197 CLR 83 Bank of New South Wales v The Commonwealth (1948) 76 CLR 1 Bank of Valletta plc v National Crime Authority & Anor (1999) 90 FCR 565 Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave Funding) Corporation v Commissioner of Taxation (1999) 85 FCR 416 Commissioner of Taxation v Bank of Western Australia Ltd (1995) 61 FCR 407 Commissioner of Taxation v Silverton Tramway Co Ltd (1953) 88 CLR 558 Committee on Direction of Fruit Marketing v Australian Postal Commission (1980) 144 CLR 577 Corporation of the City of Unley v South Australia (1997) 68 SASR 511 Edith Cowan University v Edith Cowan University Student Guild [1999] WASC 35 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (1964) 112 CLR 125 Government Insurance Office of New South Wales v Commissioner of Taxation (1992) 35 FCR 247 Grosvenor Hill (Qld) Pty Ltd v Barber (1994) 12 ACSR 646 Hong Kong Bank of Australia v Murphy (1992) 28 NSWLR 512 Hubbard Association of Scientologists International v Attorney-General for the State of Victoria [1976] VR 119 CASES CITED : Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (Q.) v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1924) 34 CLR 580 Marshall v Scottish Milk Marketing Board [1956] SLT 162 New South Wales Grains Board v Davis (unreported, NSWCCA, 17 July 1997) R v Credit Tribunal; Ex parte General Motors Acceptance Corporation (1977) 137 CLR 545 Ray Brown Pty Ltd v New South Wales Grains Board (2002) 41 ACSR 631 Re Anti-Cancer Council (Vic); Ex parte State Public Services Federation (1992) 175 CLR 442 Re Doran Constructions Pty Ltd (2002) 20 ACLC 909 Re Honey Pool of Western Australia (1987) 6 ACLC 208 Re Interchase Corporation Ltd (1996) 68 FCR 481 Re Woorabinda Aboriginal Council (1995) 18 ACSR 191 Renmark Hotel Inc v Commissioner of Taxation (1949) 79 CLR 10 RESI Corporation v Sinclair [2002] NSWCA 123 Taikato v The Queen (1996) 186 CLR 454 Trustees of Dartmouth College v Woodward (1819) 4 Wheaton 518 Victoria v The Commonwealth (1937) 58 CLR 618 Western Australian Turf Club v Commissioner of Taxation (1978) 139 CLR 288 DECISION : Originating process dismissed