South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts71A—Validation of certain warrants etc
(1) Where, by virtue
of the applicable provision, any warrant for the payment of public money or
any appointment to or dismissal from office would, but for this section, have
been invalid then that warrant, appointment or dismissal, as the case may be,
shall be and shall be deemed always to have been valid.
(2) In this
section—
"the applicable provision"—
(a) in
relation to a warrant, appointment or dismissal, as the case may be, issued or
made on or after the twenty-fourth day of October, 1856, and before the
commencement of this Act, means section 33 of Act No. 2 of 1855–6
intituled An Act to establish a Constitution for South Australia, and to grant
a Civil List to Her Majesty; and
(b) in
relation to a warrant, appointment or dismissal, as the case may be, issued or
made on or after the commencement of this Act and before the commencement of
the Constitution Act Amendment Act 1978 , means section 71 of this
Act as in force before the commencement of that Act;
"Warrant, appointment or dismissal" includes a purported warrant, appointment
or dismissal.