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SCOUT ASSOCIATION ACT 1932 - SECT 4 Validation of acts of Corporation and Branch

SCOUT ASSOCIATION ACT 1932 - SECT 4

Validation of acts of Corporation and Branch

    (1)     All acts, matters and things transacted or done by or on behalf of the Corporation or in relation to the Branch on or after 15 December 1958, being acts, matters or things which were done or transacted in purported pursuance of a direction, decision or ruling of the Australian Association, the National Council or the National Executive Committee or of the Royal Charter dated 23 August 1967 or any by-law or instrument made thereunder, shall notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or in the Royal Charter dated 4 January 1912 be deemed to have been validly and effectually done or transacted and to have been within the capacity and powers of the Branch or the Corporation (as the case requires).

    (2)     The provisions of—

        (a)     the Royal Charter dated 4 January 1912, other than the provision empowering the British Association to form local branches and committees in the Dominions; and

        (b)     any by-laws made under the Royal Charter mentioned in paragraph (a)—

shall, so far as they relate to local branches of the British Association, cease to apply to the Corporation and the Branch.

    (3)     For the purposes of that provision of the Royal Charter dated 4 January 1912 which empowers the British Association to form local branches and committees in the Dominions, the Branch shall be regarded as a local branch.

S. 4A inserted by No. 9878 s. 5.