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5 Validation

(1)  A fire service contribution collected by a local council pursuant to section 81C of the Principal Act before 1 July 2005 is not taken to have been invalidly levied or collected (or contributed) by reason only that the fire service contribution was levied and collected in respect of public land to which Division 3 of Part VI of the Principal Act did not, before that day, apply.

(2)  In this section –

contributed means contributed, pursuant to section 79 of the Principal Act, towards the operating costs of fire brigades established and maintained under that Act;

fire service contribution means a fire service contribution referred to in section 81C(2) of the Principal Act;

local council has the same meaning as in the Principal Act;

public land means land owned by –

(a) a local council; or

(b) the Crown in right of this State.