Clause 28

Any person purportedly appointed as a Deputy Commissioner of Prisons before the date of commencement of section 4 of the Prisons (Amendment) Act 2022 is taken to have been validly appointed as a Deputy Commissioner of Prisons under section 20(1) of the Prisons Act as in force on that date.

Any act or thing done under the Prisons Act by any person mentioned in subsection (1) is as valid, and is taken always to have been as valid, as it would have been if the act or thing had been done by a Deputy Commissioner of Prisons appointed or taken to have been appointed under section 20(1) of that Act as in force on the date of commencement of section 4 of the Prisons (Amendment) Act 2022.