Jurisdictional fact
Jurisdictional fact is a concept in administrative law.It is a set of circumstances set out in a statute that must exist before a government official can act. They are created by and operate in the context of government authority produced by statute and are linked to the legal concept of jurisdiction. A number of scholars have tried, with limited success, to categorise them. United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, the seminal definition is the English law case of "Anisminic". Some countriesm, like Singapore, India and Canada that have written constitutions, can be constrained in their definition of  jurisdictional facts and due to the restraints in their constitutions. Australia. In Australia the High Court has been reticent to define jurisdictional facts finding that "The principles as to how one determines whether something is a jurisdictional fact are settled but necessarily imprecise. That must be so." and that "to define Jurisdictional fact is neither necessary nor desirable." Despite this, Australian courts have attempted to define jurisdictional fact, including: These criteria of jurisdiction are created by and operate through statute, and may be subjective, or objective in nature and may also be a complex of interactions. but they must not  be illogical, or capricious and must be actual. Singapore. In Singapore the concept is called "precedent fact errors".