20 (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; (c)  anything done or not done in accordance with this Act or the regulations; or (d)  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 or other instrument concerning a change in designation of lands in the Plan, including under Ontario Regulation 568/22 made under this Act or section 26 of this Act, (ii)  the actual or potential acquisition, disposal, use or development of any land whose designation was changed under Ontario Regulation 568/22 made under this Act or section 26 of this Act, or (iii)  any actual or potential agreement under section 49.2 of the Planning Act in respect of any land whose designation was changed under Ontario Regulation 568/22 made under this Act or section 26 of this Act, including any negotiations respecting any such actual or potential agreement. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. 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 2 of Schedule 4 to the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 comes into force. 2023, c. 22, Sched. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. 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. 4, s. 2. Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2005, c. 1, s. 26 (2)
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