(1) Things done,
including rights, titles and interests revested, conferred, granted, demised,
and acquired, in pursuance or purported pursuance of the provisions of the
repealed Acts are, subject to subsection (2), ratified as lawful and
validated.
(2) Notwithstanding
the repeal, or any of the provisions, of the repealed Acts, the interpretation
of the expression, mineral rights in section 8, and the form of Crown Grant in
the Schedule, are deemed to have been in operation on and from 15 January
1946, being the day on which the repealed War Service Land Settlement
Agreement Act 1945 came into operation.