South Australia
Emergency Services Funding (Validation of Levy on Vehicles and Vessels) Act 2003
An Act to validate certain administrative acts and payments and to make a related amendment to the Emergency Services Funding Act 1998.

Contents
1	Short title
2	Interpretation
3	Validation of certain administrative acts and payments
Schedule 1—Related amendment
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Emergency Services Funding Act 1998
2	Amendment of section 24—Declaring the amount of the levy

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Emergency Services Funding (Validation of Levy on Vehicles and Vessels) Act 2003.
2—Interpretation
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—
Act means the Emergency Services Funding Act 1998;
levy means the levy under Part 3 Division 2 of the Act;
notice means the notice under section 24 of the Act, published in the Gazette on 2 June 1999, declaring the amount of the levy (Gazette 2.6.1999 p2917);
relevant financial years means the 2001/2002, 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 financial years.
3—Validation of certain administrative acts and payments
	(1)	Despite the terms of the notice and any provision of the Act, the notice applies in all respects, and will be taken to have always so applied, in relation to the relevant financial years as if the relevant financial years were specified in the notice as financial years in relation to which the notice applies.
	(2)	Anything done or omitted to be done prior to the commencement of this section in or with respect to—
	(a)	the declaration under section 24 of the Act of the amount of the levy; or
	(b)	the collection and payment of the levy,
is, to the extent of any invalidity that would arise but for this section, to be taken to have been validly done or validly omitted to be done, as the case may require.

Schedule 1—Related amendment
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Amendment provisions
In this Schedule, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment of Emergency Services Funding Act 1998
2—Amendment of section 24—Declaring the amount of the levy
	(1)	Section 24(2)(a)—after "Commission" insert:
(as in force at the time of publication of the notice)
	(2)	Section 24—after subsection (2) insert:
	(2a)	The amount of the levy specified in the notice in respect of a particular class of motor vehicle will be the amount of the levy for the financial year or financial years in relation to which the notice applies despite any change in motor vehicle classifications under the Premium Class Code referred to in subsection (2)(a).