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In stating the principle, their Lordships proceed from the statutory requirement that the appropriate Government refusing to make a reference should record and communicate to the parties concerned its reasons therefor. It is deduced therefore that although it may not be possible for Courts themselves to come to a conclusion that there is a case for reference and direct the appropriate Government to act that view, the reasons on the strength of which the appropriate Government declines to act would be open to scrutiny by Courts. The nature and ambit of that scrutiny is also indicated by the Supreme Court in the above rulings. The normal rule of judging the right or wrong of the acts of statutory functionaries or authorities exercising statutory functions or powers should act on considerations which are relevant to the function or the power and should not act to any extent on considerations which are extraneous. In the special setting of sub-s. (5) of S. 12 of the Industrial Disputes Act, it is pointed out that the reasons stated for the opinion that the Government is not satisfied that there is a case for reference should be reasons directly connected with such absence of satisfaction that is to say, the reasons must have a direct bearing on the issues involved and must lead reasonably to the conclusion that there is no case for reference.