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a valid decision of the Board.

(5) Any act or thing done by any person or body:

    (a) in reliance on:

        (i) guidelines or criteria to which this section applies; or

        (ii) a decision referred to in subsection (4) made in reliance on, or taking account of, those guidelines or criteria; or

    (b) taking into account such guidelines or criteria or such a decision; is taken, to the extent that it is an act or thing done in reliance on those guidelines or criteria or that decision, or done taking those guidelines or criteria or that decision into account, to have been validly done.

(6) Nothing in this section is taken:

    (a) to affect the power of either House of the Parliament to disallow any guidelines or criteria to which this section applies that have been laid before that House of the Parliament; or

    (b) to validate any guidelines or criteria that have been disallowed by either House of the Parliament.

(7) In this section:

    (a) a reference to the making of guidelines or criteria includes a reference to the purported making of those guidelines or criteria; and

    (b) a reference to a decision of the Industry Research and Development Board made in reliance on guidelines or criteria or taking guidelines or criteria into account includes a reference to a decision of the Board purportedly made in reliance on those guidelines or criteria or purportedly taking those guidelines or criteria into account; and

    (c) a reference to an act or thing done by a person or body in reliance on guidelines or criteria or on a decision includes a reference to an act or thing purportedly done by that person or body in reliance on those guidelines or criteria or on that decision; and

    (d) a reference to an act or thing done by a person or body taking account of guidelines or criteria or a decision includes a reference to an act or thing purportedly done by that person or body taking account of those guidelines or criteria or that decision.

Saving of rights of action for adverse decisions or acts etc.

5.(1) In spite of anything in this Act, the validations provided for by this Act do not affect any rights of action of a person in relation to:

    (a) a decision of the Board; or

    (b) an act or thing done by any person or body;

that was adverse to the person in relation to whom the decision was made or the act or thing was done and such rights of action may be pursued as if this Act had never been enacted.

(2) In this section:

    (a) a reference to a decision of the Board includes