42Nothing in Part I of this Schedule shall be construed as validating any transaction whereby a local authority purported, in the exercise of a power conferred by an enactment repealed by the Act of 1962, but without the consent of the Minister then required by that enactment—
(a)to acquire land by agreement in pursuance of a contract made before 16th August 1959 ; or
(b)to appropriate or dispose of land before that date,
notwithstanding that the transaction could have been validly effected without that consent under the corresponding provisions of Part VI of this Act.