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### sec.9A Declaration of validity of certain laws Each provision of an Act enacted, or purporting to have been enacted, before the commencement of the Australia Acts has (and always has had) the same effect as it would have had, and is (and always has been) as valid as it would have been, if the Australia Acts had been in operation at the time of its enactment or purported enactment. s 9A ins 1995 No. 51 s 4 sch hdg prec s 10 om 1991 No. 97 s 3 sch 1

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