The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Auckland Highway Districts Validation Act, 1877.”

All such notices made or purporting to be made by Sir George Grey, as such Superintendent as aforesaid, shall be and be deemed to be and to have been, from the respective dates of their publication in the said Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, good and valid to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and the highway districts created, or supposed or alleged to be created thereby, shall be and be deemed to be and to have been duly created highway districts under the said “Highways Act, 1874,” since, from, and after the said respective dates of publication.

It is hereby declared that the Parts numbered II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII. of “The Highway Boards Empowering Act, 1871,” shall be and be deemed to have been on, as, and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, proclaimed, 1 extended, and applied to any highway district in the Provincial District of Auckland purporting to be constituted by any notification as aforesaid under the authority of the said “Highways Act, 1874,” as fully and effectually as if the Superintendent of the said province, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council thereof, had by Proclamation duly proclaimed that such Parts should extend and apply to any district so constituted: Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall affect an action recently tried on appeal by the Supreme Court in Auckland between William Aitken, appellant, and Alexander Bremner, respondent.