New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WALSH BAY DEVELOPMENT (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1999 - SECT 7

7 Validation of Heritage Act approvals

(1) Each of the following decisions made, or purporting to be made, under the Heritage Act is validated (to the extent of any invalidity):

(a) the decision of the Director of the Heritage Office on 5 November 1997 concerning application number B578722 made by Walsh Bay Finance Pty Limited,

(b) the decision of the Heritage Council on 23 April 1998 concerning 3 applications numbered B578911 made by Walsh Bay Finance Pty Limited,

(c) the decision of the Heritage Council on 11 June 1998 concerning the decision referred to in paragraph (b) (although the decision referred to in paragraph (b) was expressed by the Heritage Council to be a decision of 30 April 1998) but as if the decision of 11 June 1998 were in the terms notified by the Director of the Heritage Office on 23 July 1998,

(d) the decision of the Director of the Heritage Office on 23 July 1998 concerning the decision on 11 June 1998 referred to in paragraph (c),

(e) the decision of the Heritage Council on 23 July 1998, stated in the minutes of the Heritage Council to be on 24 July 1998, that the proposed determination under the EPA Act by the consent authority of development application 60/97 made by Walsh Bay Finance Pty Limited was generally consistent with its decision of 23 April 1998 (although the decision was expressed by the Heritage Council to be a decision of 30 April 1998) and its decision of 11 June 1998.

(2) A decision validated by this section is taken:

(a) to be an approval under Part 4 of the Heritage Act 1977 , and

(b) to have been duly granted in accordance with the Heritage Act and otherwise in accordance with law, and

(c) to have been duly granted on the date on which it was made, or purported to be made, and thereafter to be, and to have been at all relevant times, a valid approval.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), anything done or omitted to be done on or after 5 November 1997 and before the commencement of this Act is as valid as it would have been had the decisions referred to in subsection (1) (a)-(e) been in force in accordance with this section when the thing was done or omitted.