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Approval of Minister and consequent validation of certain acts and omissions.
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2.—(1) Whenever it shall appear to the Minister for Local Government that the doing or omitting to do any act, matter, or thing done or omitted to be done by a local authority during the period between the 31st day of March, 1920, and the 6th day of December, 1922, was or might be illegal or invalid, either because the doing or omitting to do (as the case may be) such act, matter, or thing was contrary to any law or was in excess of or outside the jurisdiction or power of the local authority, or because any sanction or approval required by any law to be obtained for the doing or omission to do (as the case may be) such act, matter, or thing was not given, the Minister for Local Government may approve of such act, matter, or thing having been done or omitted to be done (as the case may be) by such local authority.
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(2) Whenever the Minister for Local Government shall have approved of any such act, matter, or thing as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section having been done or omitted to be done (as the case may be) by a local authority, the doing or omission to do (as the case may be) that act, matter, or thing by that local authority shall be and be deemed always to have been legal and valid notwithstanding any enactment, order, or rule of law to the contrary.
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