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nie. Die tweede respondent het toe ʼn advieskomitee aangestel om hom in die
uitoefening van die besluit behulpsaam te wees.
Die hof laat hom soos volg uit oor die feit dat die 2de respondent nie sy diskresie
uitgeoefen het nie828 :
“Having regard to the system used by second respondent and applied to
applicant’s application it appears to me that the conclusion is inescapable, or
at the very least appears on a balance of probability, that second respondent
did not exercise his discretion as he was required to do in terms of section 18
of the Marine Act either because such discretion as he was required to
exercise was exercised, not by him, but by the advisory committee to whom
he was not permitted to delegate such discretion, or because he accepted the
work done by the advisory committee and did not bring his own independent
discretion to bear on the decision that he was required to make.”
Bogemelde saak is op appèl geneem in Minister of Environmental Affairs and
Tourism and Another v Scenematic Fourteen (Pty) Limited. 829 Aangaande die
gedelegeerde bevoegdheid van ʼn funksionaris en die uitoefening van sy/haar
diskresie, beslis die hof soos volg : 830
“A functionary in whom a discretionary power is vested must himself exercise
that power in the absence of the right to delegate. In Hofmeyr v Minister of
Justice 1992 (3) SA 108 (C) at 117F-G King J formulated the rule thus :
‘It is well established that a discretionary power vested in one official must be
exercised by that official (or his lawful delegate) and that, although where
appropriate he may consult others and obtain their advice, he must exercise
his own discretion and not abdicate it in favour of someone else; he must not,
in the words of Baxter Administrative Law (at 443), ‘pass the buck’ or act
under the dictation of another and, if he does, the decision which flows there
from is unlawful and a nullity.”
3.3 DIE BEPALING VERVAT IN ARTIKEL 6(2)(a)(ii) – ONGEMAGTIGDE
DELEGERING VAN BEVOEGDHEID
Die doel van die delegasie van administratiewe bevoegdhede is om die verdeling
van arbeid te vergemaklik, aangesien administratiewe liggame en amptenare
dikwels nie al hulle administratiewe funksies kan hanteer nie. Dit is ʼn primêre
administratiefregtelike reël dat ʼn diskresionêre bevoegdheid nie aan ʼn ander
828 2004(4) BCLR 430 (C), P442 B-1.
829 2005(2) ALL SA 239 (SCA).
830 2005(2) ALL SA 239 (SCA), Paragraaf 20.