127Validation of existing titles

127 Validation of existing titles (1) A lease, licence, claim, right, permit or other authority granted, issued or renewed under the **Mines Act 1958** is not invalid only because there was a failure to comply with any requirement of that Act or of the regulations made under that Act specifying a time before which any act or thing must be done or not done. (2) An instrument referred to in subsection (1) has, and must be taken always to have had, the same operation and effect that it would have had if this section had been in operation at the time it was granted, issued or renewed, as the case requires. (3) The rights of the parties to any proceeding commenced in a court before 2 November 1989 must be determined as if this section had not been enacted. S. 128 repealed by No. 68/2014 s. 62.