page_title: Board of Commerce case
section_title: Privy Council
hierarchical_section_title: Board of Commerce case / Privy Council
caption_attribution_description: en:Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
context_page_description: Re Board of Commerce Act 1919 and the Combines and Fair Prices Act 1919, commonly known as the Board of Commerce case, is a Canadian constitutional decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in which the "emergency doctrine" under the federal power of peace, order and good government was first created.
context_section_description: Lord Haldane, for the Council, found that the Acts were ultra vires the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, as they could not be justified under any heading of federal power enumerated in s. 91 of the British North America Act, 1867.
caption: Lord Haldane
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