The rights, duties and liabilities of any person are declared to be, and always to have been the same as if each act or decision of an affected person as a purported occupant of the office of reserve magistrate during the relevant period had been an act or decision of a person who validly occupied the office of reserve magistrate.
New s. 143 inserted by No. 51/2000 s. 8, repealed by No. 19/2005 s. 9(2), new s. 143 inserted by No. 22/2020 s. 7.