252Purported exercise or functions, powers or duties of Municipal Electoral Tribunals and related matters

252 Purported exercise or functions, powers or duties of Municipal Electoral Tribunals and related matters (1) Any act or omission done or omitted to be done by a relevant body during the relevant period in the purported exercise of any function, power or duty of the relevant body under Division 8 of Part 3 as in force during the relevant period has the same force and effect as it would have had if the relevant body had been validly established under Division 8 of Part 3 as so in force. (2) Clause 6(1) of Schedule 4, as in force during the relevant period, is taken to have applied and to continue to apply to a person in relation to the purported exercise by that person of a duty of a member of a Tribunal (within the meaning of that subclause), being a duty to which subsection (1) applies. ***relevant body*** means any body that was purported to be established under section 44(1) as in force during the relevant period, but was not validly established under that subsection; ***relevant period*** means the period commencing on 30 October 1996 and ending on 16 February 2018. S. 253 inserted by No. 30/2022 s. 18.