WAR SERVICE HOMES COMMISSIONER VALIDATING.
No. 4 of 1921.
An Act to validate certain acts performed by persons purporting to act as War Service Homes Commissioner and Acting War Service Homes Commissioner respectively and to validate the appointment of a person as Acting War Service Homes Commissioner.
[Assented to 15th July, 1921.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the War Service Homes Commissioner Validating Act 1921.
Validation of acts of James Walker in capacity of War Service Homes Commissioner.
2. Each act done before the nineteenth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-one by James Walker, purporting to act in the capacity of War Service Homes Commissioner and which would have been valid had he been duly appointed War Service Homes Commissioner under the War Service Homes Act 1918-1920, is hereby declared to be, and to have been at all times, as valid and effectual as if the said James Walker had been, at the time of the doing of such act, duly appointed War Service Homes Commissioner under the said Act.
Validation of appointment of James Michael Semmens as Acting War Service Homes Commissioner.
3. Any appointment of James Michael Semmens as Acting War Service Homes Commissioner purporting to be, or to have been, made under the War Service Homes Act 1918-1920 is hereby declared to be, and to have been at all times, valid and effectual under the said Act. and each act done, before the commencement of this Act, by the said James Michael Semmens, purporting to act in the capacity of Acting War Service Homes Commissioner, is hereby declared to be, and to have been at all times, as valid and effectual as if the said James Michael Semmens had been, at the time of the doing of such act, duly appointed Acting War Service Homes Commissioner under the said Act.
Employment of J. M. Semmens as Acting War Service Homes Commissioner not to affect office as Repatriation Commissioner and vice versâ.
4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the War Service Homes Act 1918-1920 or in the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920, James Michael Semmens shall not, by reason only of his employment as Acting War Service Homes Commissioner, be deemed to have vacated his office as a member of the Repatriation Commission, and shall not, by reason only of his employment as a member of the Repatriation Commission, be deemed to have vacated his office as Acting War Service Homes Commissioner.