''* [Burma Act XVIII, 1945.) (3rd October, 1945.) Whereas it is necessary to indemnify servants of the Government and other persons in respect of acts and things ordered or done or purporting to have been ordered or done in the reasonable belief that such acts and things were necessary for the execution of their duty or for the purpose oi prosecuting the war or maintaining or restoring order or for enforcing discipline or ensuring public safety or maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community or for the defence of the Union of Burma or otherwise in the public interest ; And whereas it is also necessary to validate certain proclamations, orders, rules, regulations and legislative acts made or issued, and sentences, judgments and orders passed, given or made, by or under the authority of servants of the Government and other persons exercising or purporting to exercise authority in the Union of Burma under the above circumstances : * ** * It is hereby enacted as follows:—...''