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• This section inserted the definitions of Drainage works and Erosion works in s 2(1) of the principal Act.

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• This section substituted section 29, and inserted s 29A of the principal Act.

4 Validation of certain Crown forestry licences

• (1) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that every Crown forestry licence granted under section 14 of the principal Act before the commencement of this section shall be deemed to comply, and to have always complied, with sections 29 and 29A of the principal Act (as enacted by section 3 of this Act).

  (2) In every Crown forestry licence granted under section 14 of the principal Act before the commencement of this section, the terms drainage works and erosion works shall be deemed to have, and always to have had, the meanings given to those terms by section 2(1) of the principal Act (as amended by section 2 of this Act).

  (3) This section shall have effect notwithstanding any judgment or determination or order of any Court given before or after the commencement of this section in any proceedings commenced before the commencement of this section.