In rejecting a taxpayer submission that "the Act is null and void ‘due to vague and convoluted interpretations in the [Act]'" and, in particular, that definitions of various terms including "taxpayer" and "business" were vague, Webb JA quoted with approval (at para. 10) the statement of Lord Denning in Fawcett Properties Ltd. v. Buckingham County Council, [1961] A.C. 636 at 676 that "when a statute has some meaning, even though it is obscure, or several meanings, even though there is little to choose between them, the courts have to say what meaning the statute is to bear, rather than reject it as a nullity," and (at para. 11) of Gonthier J. in R. v. Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 606 that "a law will be found unconstitutionally vague if it so lacks in precision as not to give sufficient guidance for legal debate."
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