NORTHERN TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1978 - SECT 28 Validation of acts of Legislative Assembly

NORTHERN TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1978 - SECT 28

    Where a person who has, whether before or after the commencement of this section, purported to sit or vote as a member of the Legislative Assembly at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly or of a Committee of the Legislative Assembly:

  (a)   was not a duly elected member by reason of his or her not having been qualified for election or of any other defect in his or her election; or

  (b)   had vacated his or her office as a member;

all things done or purporting to have been done by the Legislative Assembly or that Committee shall be deemed to be as validly done as if that person had, when so sitting or voting, been a duly elected member of the Legislative Assembly, or had not vacated his or her office, as the case may be.