Appointments to Mental Health Court and validation
873 Appointments to Mental Health Court and validation
This section applies in relation to the appointments of a person, in effect on the commencement of this section, to be a member and the president of the Mental Health Court (the current appointments).
The period of each of the person’s current appointments is taken to include, and to have always included, the period from 14 February 2023 to 29 June 2023 (the relevant period).
Subsection (2) applies despite anything stated in an instrument under which a current appointment was made or under which the person was continued in office.
Anything done under this Act or another law during the relevant period has the same effect, and is taken to have always had the same effect, as it would have had if the person had been appointed to be a member and the president of the Mental Health Court, for the relevant period, before the start of the relevant period.
Without limiting subsections (2) and (4), an exercise of jurisdiction by the person during the relevant period is as valid as it would be, and is taken to have always been as valid as it would have been, if the person had been appointed to be a member and the president of the Mental Health Court, for the relevant period, before the start of the relevant period.
In this section—
exercise of jurisdiction means an exercise of the jurisdiction conferred on the Mental Health Court, or of the powers and functions conferred on a member of the court or the president of the court, under this Act or another law.
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