This Act may be cited as the Woodlands Drainage Board (Rating) Validation Act, 1934.

In this Act “Board” means the Woodlands Drainage Board.

The valuation rolls used for compiling the ratebooks of the Board wherein any rates were recorded in and for every year since the inception of the Board shall be deemed to be and to have been correct valuation rolls; the said rate-books shall be deemed to have been compiled in accordance with law and to be and to have been valid and effectual accordingly; the rates made and levied, or which the Board purported to make and levy, in and for every year since its inception as appearing in the said rate-books shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid; the additional charges or penalties imposed and made, or which the Board purported to impose and make, in and for every year since its inception in respect of rates unpaid for the period specified by law shall be valid and be deemed to have been valid; the demands heretofore made by the Board for the payment of any rates and additional charges or penalties shall be and be deemed to have been valid, and all judgments heretofore given in favour of the Board for rates and additional charges or penalties and costs shall be and be deemed to have been valid always.

The Board may hereafter levy and collect the said special rate of one penny in the pound pledged as security for the Woodlands Drainage Board Special Rating Area Loan of £1,500, 1913, in all respects as fully and effectually as though the said rate had been duly and regularly made by a resolution of the Board, and may continue to levy on a uniform scale during the currency thereof any special rate heretofore made and levied on such scale to secure any special loan raised by the Board.

All rates heretofore made and levied by the Board and all additional charges or penalties attachable to such rates may be sued for and shall be recoverable by the Board by action within the limit of time prescribed by the Rating Act, 1925, notwithstanding that the valuation rolls or rate-books may have been irregularly compiled or that no classification list may have been compiled, and also notwithstanding the omission of any condition whatsoever precedent to the making or levying of such rates or any irregularity, mistake, or omission in the form or manner of making or levying the same or otherwise and valid demands upon all persons liable for the said rates shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly made and delivered in accordance with law if any demands have heretofore been made or are hereafter made upon such persons; and all judgments for such rates and additional charges or penalties shall be valid judgments in all respects.

Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to take away the power of the Board under subsection two of section fifty-seven of the Rating Act, 1925, to correct errors (if any) existing in any rate-book on the passing of this Act which the Board could or ought to have corrected.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Act or in the Rating Act, 1925, no additional charge heretofore or hereafter added by the Board to unpaid rates heretofore demanded by the Board shall become payable unless the rates are unpaid at the expiration of six months and fourteen days after the passing of this Act.