This Act may be cited as the Transport Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Transport Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 120a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 16 of the Transport Amendment Act 1971 and amended by section 25 of the Transport Amendment Act 1974) is hereby further amended by adding the following subsection:

Every decision of a Regional Transport Licensing Authority relating to a harbour ferry-service licence and made before the commencement of this Act shall be as valid and effectual as if subsection (1) of this section had come into force on the 29th day of October 1974.

Nothing in this section shall adversely affect the validity of any decision made after the 29th day of October 1974 and before the commencement of this Act by a Licensing Authority; and every such decision made in respect of a harbour ferry-service licence, being a decision that would have been within the jurisdiction of a Regional Transport Licensing Authority if subsection (1) of this section had been in force, shall be as valid and effectual as it would have been if that subsection had been in force and the decision had been made by a Regional Transport Licensing Authority.

Notwithstanding any other provision of any Act or rule of law, where before the commencement of this Act a Transport Licensing Appeal Authority or Deputy Transport Licensing Appeal Authority has, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, allowed an appeal against a decision of a Regional Transport Licensing Authority in respect of a harbour ferry-service licence, that Licensing Appeal Authority shall review its decision to allow that appeal and shall decide the appeal again as if its earlier decision had not been made and as if subsection (1) of this section had come into force on the 29th day of October 1974.