The Short Title of this Act is “The Diseased Cattle Proclamations Validation Act, 1880.”

All acts, matters, or things made or done by any person under or in virtue of any Proclamation, Order in Council, notification, or appointment purporting to be made under “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1871,” or under “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1873,” are hereby declared to be and to have been valid and effectual to all intents and purposes from the date on which any such act, matter, or thing may have been made or done respectively, notwithstanding that any such Proclamation, order, notification, or appointment may have been made before the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, which was the day appointed for the coming into operation of the Act hereinabove first mentioned.