Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If proceedings are to be dealt with by the Juvenile Court as required by this Act, the proceedings are to be dealt with as proceedings before the Juvenile Court despite that before the commencement of this Act the proceedings or any part of those proceedings did not comply with the Juvenile Justice Act or that a requirement of that Act had not been compiled with.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, it is expressly declared that no proceedings to be dealt with by the Juvenile Court as required by this Act can be declared invalid by reason that before the commencement of this Act those proceedings did not comply with the Juvenile Justice Act or that a requirement of that Act had not been complied with.