New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WALSH BAY DEVELOPMENT (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1999 - SECT 8

8 Validation of EPA Act consents

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

(a) the determination by the Director-General on 4 December 1997 of Development Application No 55/97 made by Walsh Bay Finance Pty Limited,

(b) the determination by the Director-General on 20 August 1998 of Development Application No 60/97 made by Walsh Bay Finance Pty Limited,

(c) the determination by the Director-General on 15 January 1999 of an application to modify the development consent granted, or purporting to be granted, in respect of Development Application No 60/97 made by Walsh Bay Finance Pty Limited.

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

(a) to be a development consent within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 or the modification of a development consent within the meaning of that Act, as the case requires, and

(b) to have been duly granted in accordance with the EPA 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 development consent or a valid modification of a development consent, as the case requires.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), anything done or omitted to be done on or after 4 December 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), (b) and (c) been in force in accordance with this section when the thing was done or omitted.