The Short Title of this Act is “The Otago Road Rates Validity Act, 1880.”

No rate made and levied by any District Road Board constituted under “The Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” or any amendment thereof, prior to the passing of this Act, shall be deemed invalid by reason only that the road district was not at the time of the making of such rate proclaimed into subdivisions as by the forty-third section of the said Ordinance provided.

Every such rate imposed and made leviable after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, may be recovered and payment thereof enforced in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

No District Road Board or any person authorized or empowered to sue for or collect such rate under the said Ordinance shall be barred of any right or remedy in respect of such suit or recovery by reason only that it has been decided by any Court that such rate is not recoverable because the road district was not at or prior to the making of such rate proclaimed into subdivisions.