Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2011

Exercise of certain functions.

9.— Where at any time on or after 15 January 2010 but before the passing of this Act the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government either exercised a function under the Foreshore Acts 1933 to 2009, or purported to exercise such a function, then—

(a) that function (whether exercised in whole or in part), including the exercise by that Minister or by any other person of all necessary prerequisite consultations and other requirements for the purposes of the exercise of that function, shall be deemed to have been validly exercised at the relevant time as if that Minister had been the appropriate Minister for the purposes of those Acts in relation to the exercise of the function concerned, and

(b) to the extent that anything commenced to which paragraph (a) relates has not been completed, it may be carried on or completed on and after the passing of this Act by that Minister.