In terms of administrative review, the basic question asked is not whether a particular decision is ''right'', or whether the judge, had he been the minister or the official, would have come to a different decision. The questions are: what the power or discretion which the law has conferred on the official is? And had that power has been exceeded, or otherwise unlawfully exercised? For example, in England, a local authority was given the statutory power to provide wash houses where people could come and do their own laundry. A court decided that this power was not sufficiently broad to permit a local authority to open a full laundry service which was trading for profit.