Validation of actions

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Orissa Education Act, 1969 or in any judgement, decree or order of any Court, no order passed or action taken for the supersession of the Managing Committee of any school by the Director of Public Instruction (Higher Education), the Additional Director of Public Instruction, the Additional Director of Public Instruction (Schools) or the Joint Director of Public Instruction (Schools) under section 11 of the said Act, at any time during the period between the 20th January, 1976 and the 27th October, 1978, in exercise of the powers conferred during that period on the Director of Public Instruction (Schools) by that section, in the belief or purported belief that there was a vacancy in the Office of the Director of Public Instruction (Schools) and that the powers and functions of the Director of Public Instruction (Schools) were during the relevant period, delegated to the Officer who had passed the order or taken the action, shall be questioned in any court of law or be otherwise open to challenge merely on the ground that there was no such vacancy and that the powers and functions of the Director of Public Instruction (Schools) were not legally vested in the officer who had passed the order or taken the action and all such orders passed and actions taken shall, for all intents and purposes, be deemed to have been validly passed or taken as if the powers and functions of the Director of Public Instruction (Schools) under that section were, at all material times, vested in the Officer who has passed the order or taken the action.