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It is an unwritten rule of the law, constitutional and administrative, that whenever a decision-making function is entrusted to the subjective satisfaction of a statutory functionary, there is an implicit obligation to apply his mind to pertinent and proximate matters only, eschewing the irrelevant and the remote.
Prof. de Smith's treatise 'Judicial Review of Administrative Action' (4th Edn.) at page 285-86 succinctly summarizing several principles formulated by the Courts in various decision provides:
