Section 6
Validation of certain acts and indemnity in respect thereof.
The Inflammable Substances Act, 1952
About this Act
An Act to declare certain substances to be dangerously inflammable and to provide for the regulation of their import, transport, storage and production by applying thereto the Petroleum Act, 1934, and the rules thereunder, and for certain matters connected with such regulation.
All acts of executive authority,
proceedings and sentences which have been done, taken or passed with respect to, or on account of, any inflammable substance since the 1st day of April, 1937, and before the commencement of this Act by any
officer of Government or by any person acting under his authority or otherwise in pursuance of an order
of the Government in the belief or purported belief that the acts, proceedings or sentences were being
done, taken or passed under the Petroleum Act shall be as valid and operative as if they had been done,
taken or passed in accordance with law; and no suit or other legal proceeding shall be maintained or
continued against any person whatever on the ground that any such acts, proceedings or sentences were
not done, taken or passed in accordance with law.