Water Act 1989

Subject to section 342—

a fee relating to salinity mitigation or offsetting that is fixed, or purportedly fixed, under section 64R as in force at any time before the validation date is to be taken to be, and always to have been, validly fixed, despite a failure by any person to comply with that section; and

a fee relating to salinity mitigation or offsetting that is collected or received, or purportedly collected or received, under or for the purposes of section 64R as in force at any time before the validation date is to be taken to be, and always to have been, validly collected or received, despite a failure by any person to comply with that section; and

any action, matter or thing taken, arising or done as a result or consequence of, or in reliance upon, such a fixing, collection or receipt or purported fixing, collection or receipt, whether under this Act or otherwise, is taken to be, and to always have been, valid and effective.

Without limiting subsection (1), that subsection applies with respect to a failure to provide services of a particular kind or to a particular person.