This Act may be cited as the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Sale of Liquor Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 27(4) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “are altered”, the words “the Governor-General may by Order in Council declare that, as from a date to be specified in the Order,”.

Whereas, immediately before the 1st day of August 1974, by virtue of section 24(2) of the principal Act the area of land that constituted Waitemata County was included in the Auckland Licensing District and the area of land that constituted Rodney County was included in the Northland Licensing District: And whereas, as from the said 1st day of August 1974, pursuant to a determination of the Local Government Commission Waitemata County ceased to exist and part of the land that was, immediately before that date, included in the said County (that part being referred to in this section as the affected area) was included in Rodney County: And whereas by virtue of section 27(4) of the principal Act the effect of those changes was to include the affected area in the Northland Licensing District: And whereas by Order in Council made on the 16th day of December 1974 Rodney County (as then constituted) was excluded from the Northland Licensing District and included in the Auckland Licensing District: And whereas throughout the period commencing on the said 1st day of August 1974 and ending with the said 16th day of December 1974 the Auckland Licensing Committee and the Chairman of that Committee purported to exercise jurisdiction in respect of matters arising under the principal Act within the affected area in the belief that the affected area remained part of the Auckland Licensing District: And whereas it is expedient that that purported exercise of jurisdiction be validated: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

No decision made or action taken by the Auckland Licensing Committee or by the Chairman of the Committee at any time during the period commencing on the 1st day of August 1974 and ending with the 16th day of December 1974 in respect of or in connection with any matter arising under the principal Act within the affected area shall be called into question in any proceedings by reason only of the fact that the affected area was not then included in the Auckland Licensing District.