What the official record says
This Act is the Tasman District Council (Validation and Recovery of Certain Rates) Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. The purposes of this Act are to— validate specified rates set and assessed by the Council and the penalties added to those rates; and treat all money received by the Council in payment of the specified rates or penalties added to those rates as having been lawfully paid to, and received by, the Council; and authorise the Council to recover any part of the specified rates and any penalties added to those rates that remain unpaid as if the specified rates or penalties had always been lawfully payable; and validate the Ligar Bay stormwater rate and the Tata Beach stormwater rate for the 2006/2007 financial year. In