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Part 3Miscellaneous provisions
Savings

35Validation of certain names

  1. In relation to actions taken before the commencement of this Act, this section applies to every name—

  2. that the Board has assigned to, or altered for, a geographic feature in Antarctica, whether or not that name has been gazetted; and
    1. assigned to, or altered for, a Crown protected area under an enactment, whether or not the proposed name—
      1. was publicly notified and consulted on; or
        1. gazetted under, or included in, the enactment.

        2. The names referred to in subsection (1) are official geographic names and as valid as if they had been assigned or altered in accordance with this Act.

        3. The Board must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the commencement of this Act, publish in the Gazette the official geographic names referred to in subsection (1) that have not previously been gazetted.

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