19 (1) No cause of action arises as a direct or indirect result of, (a)  the enactment, amendment or repeal of any provision of this Act, including, for greater certainty, the amendments made to this Act by the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023; (b)  the making, amendment or revocation of any provision of the regulations made under this Act, including, for greater certainty, the making of, amendments to and revocation of Ontario Regulation 59/05 (Designation of Greenbelt Area) made under this Act, including, (i)  the inclusion in paragraph 3 of subsection 1 (1) of that Regulation, on December 16, 2004, of the area of land designated as Part 32 on a plan entitled “Plan of the Boundary of the Protected Countryside” dated February 23, 2005 and filed on that date with the Office of the Surveyor General of Ontario, and (ii)  the amendments made to that Regulation by Ontario Regulation 567/22 made under this Act; (c)  the establishment of the Greenbelt Plan or the approval of any amendments to the Greenbelt Plan under subsection 14 (1), including, for greater certainty, the approval of Greenbelt Plan Amendment No. 3; (d)  the establishment of a plan or the approval of an amendment to a plan under the Ontario Planning and Development Act, 1994 in relation to lands to which the Greenbelt Plan applies; (e)  anything done or not done in accordance with this Act, the regulations made under it, the Greenbelt Plan or a plan referred to in clause (d), including, for greater certainty, any review or reconsideration of the Greenbelt Area and the Greenbelt Plan, or any purported failure to review or reconsider the Greenbelt Area and the Greenbelt Plan, including in relation to the land that is identified as “Featureless Lands” in the Statement of Claim filed in the Superior Court of Justice proceeding commenced at Newmarket and identified as Court File number CV-17-131956-00; or (f)  any representation or other conduct by current or former employees, officers or agents of the Crown in right of Ontario or current or former members of the Executive Council that is related, directly or indirectly, to, (i)  the actual or potential enactment of any Act or actual or potential making of any regulation made under this Act or other instrument concerning, (A)  the removal of land from the Greenbelt Area, including under Ontario Regulation 567/22 made under this Act, or (B)  the identification of any land, including by Greenbelt Plan Amendment No. 3, (ii)  the actual or potential acquisition, disposal, use or development of any land removed from the Greenbelt Area pursuant to Ontario Regulation 567/22 made under this Act or redesignated by Greenbelt Plan Amendment No. 3, (iii)  the actual or potential granting or issuance of any approval, permit, order or other instrument in respect of any land removed from the Greenbelt Area under Ontario Regulation 567/22 made under this Act or redesignated by Greenbelt Plan Amendment No. 3, (iv)  any actual or potential agreement under section 49.2 of the Planning Act in respect of any land referred to in clause 14.1 (a) of this Act, including any negotiations respecting any such actual or potential agreement, (v)  the addition of land that is identified as “Featureless Lands” in the Statement of Claim filed in the Superior Court of Justice proceeding commenced at Newmarket and identified as Court File number CV-17-131956-00 to the Greenbelt Area under Ontario Regulation 59/05 made under this Act and the designation of that land as Protected Countryside by the Greenbelt Plan, any review or reconsideration of that addition and designation or any purported failure to review or reconsider that addition and designation, or (vi)  the settlement of the Superior Court of Justice proceeding commenced at Newmarket and identified as Court File number CV-17-131956-00, including the disclosure of any information relating to that settlement, regardless of whether such information is privileged or confidential, or any purported breach of that settlement. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. No remedy (2) No costs, compensation or damages, including for loss of revenues or loss of profit, are owing or payable to any person and no remedy, including but not limited to a remedy in contract, restitution, tort, misfeasance, bad faith, trust or fiduciary obligation, any equitable remedy or any remedy under any statute, is available to any person in connection with anything referred to in subsection (1). 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. Proceedings barred (3) No proceeding that is directly or indirectly based on or related to anything referred to in subsection (1) may be brought or maintained against any person. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. Application (4) Subsection (3) does not apply with respect to an application for judicial review, but does apply with respect to any other court, administrative or arbitral proceeding claiming any remedy or relief, including specific performance, injunction, declaratory relief or the enforcement of a judgment, order or award made outside Ontario. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. Retrospective effect (5) Subsections (1), (2) and (3) apply regardless of whether a cause of action on which a proceeding is purportedly based arose before, on or after the day section 4 of Schedule 2 to the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 comes into force. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. No costs award (6) No costs shall be awarded against any person in respect of a proceeding that cannot be brought or maintained under subsection (3). 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. No expropriation or injurious affection (7) Nothing referred to in subsection (1) constitutes an expropriation or injurious affection for the purposes of the Expropriations Act or otherwise at law. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. Proceedings by Crown not prevented (8) This section does not apply with respect to proceedings brought by the Crown in right of Ontario. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. Person defined (9) In this section, “person” includes the Crown in right of Ontario and its current and former employees, officers and agents, current and former members of the Executive Council and municipalities and their current and former employees, officers and agents. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4. Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2023, c. 22, Sched. 2, s. 4 - 06/12/2023