Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act 1962 (NSW)

Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act 1962 No 28

An Act to ratify an agreement relating to child welfare made between the State of New South Wales of the one part and the Commonwealth of Australia of the other part; to provide for the carrying into effect of the said agreement; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith.

1 Name of Act and commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act 1962. (2) This Act shall commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

2 Ratification of agreement (1) The agreement (hereinafter referred to as the agreement), a copy of which is set out in the Schedule to this Act, is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed, and the doing or performance of all such acts, matters or things as are to be or may be done or performed under or in pursuance of the agreement, or the principal agreement (as defined in clause 2 (1) of the agreement) as amended by the agreement, is hereby authorised, and the agreement may be carried into effect notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection one of this section all acts, matters and things which, by the agreement or the said principal agreement as amended by the agreement, are agreed, directed, authorised or permitted to be made, done or executed by or on behalf of the Governor, the Minister, or the Director or any other officer or employee are hereby sanctioned, authorised and confirmed.

3 Validation Any act, matter or thing for or with respect to which provision is made in the agreement or the said principal agreement as amended by the agreement made, done or executed before the commencement of this Act or made, done or executed by the Governor, the Minister, or the Director or any other officer or employee, which would have been lawful if this Act had been in force at the time such act, matter or thing was made, done or executed is hereby validated.