What is the test for determining the content of the role of a statutory review officer?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rocky Top Farm v. Nova Scotia (Agriculture), 2015 NSSC 21 (CanLII):
The principle in Rizzo v. Rizzo Shoes Ltd., 1998 CanLII 837 (SCC), [1998] S.C.J. 2 applies. This is a situation where the person reading the statute has to find the content of the role on review by considering the immediate text in light of the surrounding text, the legislative scheme, and the legislative purposes to which it relates.
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