Hibernia Development Project Act

Marginal note:Validation of project approval

• 6 (1) For the purposes of the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act, the decision of the Board concerning the application for approval of the Hibernia Canada-Newfoundland Benefits Plan and the Hibernia Development Plan, which decision was published as Decision 86.01 and submitted to the Minister on June 18, 1986, shall be deemed to have been validly made by the Board pursuant to sections 45 and 139 of that Act and the conditions referred to in subsection 32(1) of that Act shall be deemed to have been satisfied in respect of that decision.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (2) Nothing done by the Board or the Minister pursuant to or in furtherance of the decision referred to in subsection (1) shall be found to be invalid by reason only that the Board was not properly constituted at the time the decision was made or that any of the provisions of the Act referred to in subsection (1) were not in force at that time.