Singapore legislation
Clause 30
Clause 30
Validation of acts done and directions given by the Government, etc.
(1)
No legal proceedings whatsoever shall lie or be instituted or maintained in any court of law for or on account of or in respect of any act, decision or thing done or taken by the Government, or any Minister, officer or committee thereof, during the period from the 11th day of September 1973 to the 11th day of September 1975, if done or taken in good faith in the execution of duty.
(2)
No legal proceedings in respect of any such act, decision or thing which is alleged to have been done or taken in bad faith in the execution of duty during the period from the 11th day of September 1973 to the 11th day of September 1975, shall be instituted or maintained in any court of law unless a certificate of the Attorney-General shall first have been obtained sanctioning the institution of such legal proceedings.
(3)
All directions whether of a procedural nature or otherwise made during the period from the 11th day of September 1973 to the 11th day of September 1975, by or in the name of the Government or any Minister, officer or committee thereof, shall be deemed to be, and always to have been, validly made, notwithstanding that such directions have been revoked or amended or are or have been inconsistent with, or in conflict with, or contrary to any written law or law previously in force.
(4)
Except as provided in subsection (2) of section 4 of this Act, any approval granted or any disapproval for the purchase of residential property by the Government, or any Minister, officer or committee thereof, during the period from the 11th day of September 1973 to the 11th day of September 1975, shall be deemed to have been made under this Act.