Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00076:clause:1_1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00076
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1
Character Range: 4512–6061

1  Validation of acts done under Part VAA, VB or VII of the Health Insurance Act 1973
(1) This item applies to a thing purportedly done under Part VAA, VB or VII of the Health Insurance Act 1973 at any time before the day this item commences, to the extent that the thing purportedly done would, apart from this item, be invalid because a person was not appointed or validly appointed as a Panel member or Deputy Director under Part VAA of that Act.
(2) The thing purportedly done is as valid and effective, and is taken always to have been as valid and effective, as it would have been had the person been validly appointed as a Panel member or Deputy Director under that Part.
(3) All persons are, by force of this subitem, declared to be, and always to have been, entitled to act on the basis that the thing purportedly done is valid and effective.
(4) This item does not affect rights or liabilities of parties to proceedings for which leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia has been given on or before the day this item commences, if the fact that a person was not appointed or validly appointed as a Panel member or Deputy Director under that Part is in issue in the proceedings.
(5) Subject to subitem (4), subitems (1), (2) and (3) have effect in relation to:
 (a) proceedings (whether original or appellate) that begin on or after the day this item commences; and
 (b) proceedings (whether original or appellate) that began before the day this item commences, being proceedings that had not been finally determined as at that day.