Section 1: Validation of tribunals and inquiries etc.

(1) Where on or after the commencement of this Act (but before 30th September, 1977), the appropriate authority in a State has instituted any triburial or inquiry (however etc.described or constituted)-
(a) to inquire into any matter concerning the administration of the affairs of any person or of any body, whether corporate or unincorporate, in the State; or
(b) to inquire into any aspect of the exercise of his official duties by a public officer of the State; or
(c) to inquire into the conduct of any person whether or not a public officer of the State in so far as it concerned any of the matters mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection; or
(d) to inquire into any matter whatsoever in the State, the tribunal or inquiry as aforesaid shall notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any enactment, law or rule of law, be deemed to have been validly instituted or constituted.
(2) The question whether any tribunal or inquiry to which subsection (1) of this section relates was or has been validly instituted or constituted, or whether any Law or subsidiary instrument under which the tribunal or inquiry was instituted (or purported to have been instituted) had been validly made shall not be inquired into in any court; and if any action or other proceeding whatsoever has been or is instituted in any court in respect of any such question the action or other proceeding shall be void.