Port Bellarine Tourist Resort (Repeal) Act 2012

The Act operates through a limited set of legal concepts that control legal status, property reservation, and fiscal consequence. These concepts are expressed primarily through definitions and operative clauses.

Definitions and scope

• “Grawin Pty. Limited” is defined by ACN (s 3). This pins the corporate party to a particular legal entity.
• “Rights” and “liabilities” are given broad definitions in s 3: “rights” includes all rights, powers, privileges and immunities, whether actual, contingent or prospective; “liabilities” includes all liabilities, duties and obligations, whether actual, contingent or prospective. The Act therefore treats contingent and prospective interests as within the scope of extinguishment.
• “The Agreement” and “the Crown lease” are defined by reference to the material in the 1981 Act (s 3). That cross-reference preserves the precise documents and the historical legal instruments as the objects of termination.

Operative devices

• Repeal (s 4): statutory repeal removes the enabling Act, terminating its legislative basis.
• Termination and extinguishment (ss 5-6): the Act uses affirmative statutory termination together with a broad extinguishment clause to eliminate existing and prospective legal entitlements and obligations arising under the Agreement and Crown lease.
• Revocation of reservation (s 7): the Act targets land that was permanently reserved under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 by operation of s 13 of the 1981 Act, and revokes that reservation.
• Abolition of the committee (s 8): a statutory body created under the 1981 Act is abolished by an express clause.
• Fund transfer (s 9): consolidates any project reserve monies into the Consolidated Fund.
• Exclusion of Crown liability (s 10): an express bar on Crown liability for compensation or claims related to the repeal, termination or extinguishment.

Cross-reference preservation

• Section 3(2) instructs that words and expressions used in the Port Bellarine Tourist Resort Act 1981 have the same meanings in this Repeal Act as in the 1981 Act. That maintains continuity of defined terms such as “Tourist Resort Area” or other technical terms that appear in the earlier Act.

Temporal effect

• Termination and extinguishment are expressed to apply whether or not the Agreement or Crown lease was in force at commencement; if not in force, the termination is “confirmed” (ss 5(3)-(4), 6(3)-(4)). This ensures the clause operates regardless of prior lapsing or suspension.

Financial and administrative consequences

• Any balance in the Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund moves to the Consolidated Fund (s 9). The committee that managed the project is abolished, so its institutional functions cease (s 8).
• The Act contains no transitional compensation mechanism and instead disclaims Crown liability (s 10).

Collectively, these elements show the Act as a concise legal instrument that dismantles a statutory project framework, removes statutory reservations, disposes of funds to general revenue, and shuts down statutory institutional arrangements while excluding Crown exposure to claims related to those steps.

The Act identifies a small set of specific and broader categories of persons and entities whose legal positions are altered.

Primary private party

• Grawin Pty. Limited, identified by ACN in s 3. The Agreement and Crown lease that involved Grawin are terminated and all rights and liabilities of Grawin arising out of or in connection with them are extinguished (ss 5(1)-(4), 6(1)-(4)). Because “rights” and “liabilities” include contingent and prospective interests (s 3), interests that have not yet matured are also within scope.

The Crown and State agencies

• The State of Victoria is a party to the Agreement and the statutory counterparty in the 1981 Act; all rights and liabilities of the State arising out of or in connection with the Agreement and Crown lease are extinguished (ss 5(2), 6(2)). Section 10(1)-(2) expressly denies any Crown liability to any person for loss or damage arising out of the Act or the termination of the Agreement or Crown lease.

Statutory body and public fund

• The Port Bellarine Committee of Management, a statutory committee established under the 1981 Act, is abolished (s 8). Any functions it exercised under the 1981 Act cease by operation of the abolition.
• The Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund, to the extent it holds money immediately before commencement, is extinguished as a separate fund and its balance is to be paid into the Consolidated Fund (s 9).

Land and public users

• Lands within the defined “Tourist Resort Area” that had been permanently reserved under s 4(1) of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 by operation of s 13 of the 1981 Act are affected: any such reservation is revoked by s 7. This revocation affects the statutory status of those parcels of land and therefore landholders, local government planning authorities, recreation users, and agencies charged with land administration.

Third-party creditors, contractors and prospective claimants

• Third parties who might have asserted rights or claims under the Agreement or Crown lease (for example, subcontractors, successors, mortgagees) are affected in that those statutory rights and liabilities are extinguished if they arise out of or are in connection with those instruments (ss 5-6; s 3 definitions capture contingent and prospective interests). However the Act does not create a separate pathway of compensation; instead s 10 excludes Crown liability for claims arising from the repeal and termination.

The public and parliamentary actors

• Parliament and responsible Ministers are the decision makers that authorised the repeal and termination. The Preamble records the parliamentary purpose and the Explanatory Notes identify the commencement date. The Minister’s second reading speech dates are recorded in the Endnotes.

In short, the Act directly affects a defined private corporate party, the Crown’s statutory position, an identified management committee and fund, and the statutory reservation status of particular lands. It also has consequential effects on third parties who had contingent or prospective rights under the terminated instruments, but the Act forecloses Crown liability for related loss or claims (s 10).

The Act primarily removes rights and duties; it creates a small number of affirmative duties on administration and an express bar on claims.

Rights extinguished

• All rights of the State and Grawin arising out of or in connection with the Agreement are extinguished by s 5(2). “Rights” is defined broadly in s 3 to include actual, contingent or prospective rights, powers, privileges and immunities. The same formula applies to the Crown lease in s 6(2). The extinguishment therefore reaches current enforceable rights and rights that have not yet matured.

Liabilities extinguished

• All liabilities of the State and Grawin arising out of or in connection with the Agreement are likewise extinguished (s 5(2)), and the same applies to liabilities connected with the Crown lease (s 6(2)). “Liabilities” as defined in s 3 covers actual, contingent and prospective liabilities, duties and obligations. The statutory language therefore removes both present obligations and obligations that are contingent.

Confirmation clauses

• To avoid ambiguity about instruments that were not in force at commencement, ss 5(3)-(4) and 6(3)-(4) confirm the termination of the Agreement and Crown lease whether or not they were in force on commencement; if they were already not in force, termination is nonetheless “confirmed.” This is an express clarity device.

Abolition and fund transfer duties

• The Act imposes an administrative directive: “Any amount standing to the credit of the Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund immediately before the commencement of this Act is to be paid into the Consolidated Fund” (s 9). That is a specific statutory direction to effect a cash transfer from the project’s reserve account into the State’s general revenue account. The Act does not name the accountable officer to implement the transfer, but the statutory duty is clear in form.

Revocation of reservation

• Section 7(2) revokes any reservation referred to in s 7(1). That revocation is an immediate statutory extinguishment of the reserved status of particular land parcels.

No Crown liability

• Section 10(1) provides that “No amount is payable by the Crown (as compensation, damages or otherwise) to any person for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the enactment of this Act.” Section 10(2) goes further: “Without limiting subsection (1), the Crown is not liable to any person for any claim arising out of or in connection with the termination of the Agreement or the Crown lease.” These clauses operate as an express statutory withdrawal of remedial rights against the Crown in respect of the Act’s operative steps.

Interpretation continuity

• Section 3(2) directs that words and expressions used in the 1981 Act retain the same meanings in the Repeal Act. This means that rights, duties and concepts from the 1981 Act are to be interpreted by reference to their original statutory definitions when considering what is being extinguished or revoked.

What the Act does not create

• The Act creates no new private rights to compensation; it expressly disclaims Crown liability. It creates no penalty scheme, no obligations on third parties and no process for claims arising from the termination or revocation, beyond the single administrative direction to transfer fund balances (s 9).

Taken together, the Act substitutes statutory extinguishment and administrative reallocation for any remedial or compensatory regime, and it places an explicit statutory bar on Crown liability in relation to the repeals and terminations effected.

The Act contains no criminal sanctions or civil enforcement procedure provisions. Instead it operates primarily through statutory extinguishment and administrative directions. The enforcement architecture is therefore limited and largely administrative.

Absence of penalty provisions

• There are no sections in the Act that create offences, fines or enforcement mechanisms. The Act’s operative effect is declaratory and extinguishing rather than penal. The text contains no enforcement agency powers, compliance regimes, or civil penalty schemes.

Statutory effect as self-executing enforcement

• The Act uses self-executing statutory language to produce legal effects: repeal (s 4), termination (ss 5-6), revocation (s 7), abolition (s 8) and fund transfer (s 9). These provisions operate by statute and do not require a separate enforcement action to take legal effect. For instance, the Agreement and Crown lease are terminated by force of s 5(1) and s 6(1) respectively.

Bar on claims, limiting enforcement against the Crown

• Section 10(1)-(2) removes the Crown’s exposure to claims for compensation, damages or otherwise arising out of or in connection with enactment of the Act, and expressly bars Crown liability for claims arising out of the termination of the Agreement or Crown lease. Where a party might otherwise seek relief or damages from the Crown for loss resulting from the termination or revocation, s 10 removes that avenue. The provision functions as a statutory limitation on remedies, not as a penalty.

Administrative implementation tasks

• The Act requires that any amount standing to the credit of the Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund immediately before commencement be paid into the Consolidated Fund (s 9). Administering agencies or officers will therefore need to transfer funds and update financial records. The Act does not specify an enforcement mechanism or sanction for failure to transfer the funds, but the statutory direction itself is mandatory.

Effect on property status and land administration

• Revocation of reservations (s 7) will change statutory land status. That change will need to be recorded by land administration agencies and may have downstream consequences for planning, land use and local government action. Again, the Act does not prescribe enforcement steps or penalties for non-compliance with administrative record changes; it creates the legal change and leaves practical implementation to the relevant agencies.

Practical consequences for third parties

• Because the Act extinguishes rights and liabilities (ss 5-6) and denies Crown liability (s 10), affected third parties have a reduced set of enforcement options against the Crown in relation to the terminated instruments. The Act does not directly address remedies between private parties unrelated to Crown liability; those remain governed by general law, but any private claim that rests on rights or obligations arising under the Agreement or Crown lease may be rendered nugatory by the extinguishment clauses.

In short, enforcement is accomplished by statutory operation and administrative steps; the Act contains no penal sanctions and it eliminates Crown exposure to claims connected to the repealed instruments.

The Act interacts expressly with the Port Bellarine Tourist Resort Act 1981, the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978, financial arrangements regarding the Consolidated Fund, and with the concepts and definitions carried over by s 3(2). The interaction is largely one of revocation, confirmation and definitional continuity.

Port Bellarine Tourist Resort Act 1981

• The Repeal Act revokes the 1981 Act (s 4). Section 3(2) requires that words and expressions used in the Port Bellarine Tourist Resort Act 1981 have the same meanings in the Repeal Act as they do in the 1981 Act. This preserves definitional continuity for concepts such as “Tourist Resort Area”, the Agreement found in the First Schedule to the 1981 Act, and the Crown lease granted under s 16 of the 1981 Act (s 3 definitions). The effect is that the instruments and defined concepts created by the 1981 Act are the precise objects of termination and revocation.

Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978

• Section 7(1) identifies land that pursuant to s 13 of the 1981 Act is “deemed to be permanently reserved under section 4(1) of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978” or “is permanently reserved under section 4(1) of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978” for public recreation and tourist facilities. Section 7(2) then revokes any such reservation. This directly alters the operation of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 in respect of any land made reserved under the 1981 Act by s 13: where the 1981 Act effected a reservation under the 1978 Act, the Repeal Act withdraws that reservation.

Consolidated Fund and public finance law

• Section 9 mandates the payment of any amounts standing to the credit of the Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund into the Consolidated Fund. This interacts with financial administration laws and Treasury practice concerning the Consolidated Fund, requiring agencies to account for and transfer balances consistent with public finance rules. The Act does not amend financial management statutes, but it effects a reallocation of specific statutory monies into general revenue.

Common law and private contractual law

• The Act extinguishes rights and liabilities under the Agreement and Crown lease. That extinguishment may displace common law or equitable remedies that would otherwise arise under those instruments, but the Act itself does not purport to amend other statutes beyond the express references. Because s 10 disclaims Crown liability, parties cannot rely on statutory claims against the Crown for loss arising from the Act itself; their remaining remedies would depend on private law causes of action not directly targeted by the Act.

Administrative law and statutory bodies

• The abolition of the Port Bellarine Committee of Management (s 8) removes a statutory decision-maker created by the 1981 Act. Any powers, functions or duties that body exercised under the 1981 Act are extinguished; if any of those functions had been delegated or linked to other statutory schemes, those links will need administrative attention to reassign responsibilities or close files.

Temporal and interpretative continuity

• Section 3(2) ensures that interpretation of terms used in the Repeal Act should follow the meanings given in the 1981 Act, creating textual continuity between the two Acts for the purposes of interpreting which lands, funds and instruments are affected.

Limitations on interaction

• The Repeal Act does not provide express savings for third-party rights other than the recognition that if instruments were already not in force, their termination is “confirmed” (ss 5(3)-(4), 6(3)-(4)). The Act also does not enact transitional mechanisms or cross-reference dispute-resolution provisions in other laws; it instead uses s 10 to prevent claims against the Crown.

In summary, the Act operates to unwind or reverse specific statutory effects created by the 1981 Act and to alter the operation of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 in respect of the affected land. It reallocates public monies to the Consolidated Fund and removes a statutory body, while preserving definitional continuity with the original Act via s 3(2).

The Act’s internal endnotes and table of amendments provide a concise history covering enactment, commencement and amendment absence.

Enactment and commencement

• The Act was assented to on 3 April 2012 and came into operation on 4 April 2012. Section 2 fixes commencement as “the day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.” The Endnotes record assent on 3 April 2012 and commencement on 4 April 2012.

Second reading speech

• The Endnotes list the Minister’s second reading speech dates: Legislative Assembly 14 March 2012 and Legislative Council 27 March 2012. The long title of the Bill is recorded in the Endnotes and matches the Act’s stated purposes.

Amendments since enactment

• The Table of Amendments in the Endnotes records that there are no amendments made to the Port Bellarine Tourist Resort (Repeal) Act 2012 by Acts or subordinate instruments. The Act therefore remains in its original form as at the version date (4 April 2012; Version No. 001).

Reprints and historical cross-references

• The Act refers to the 1981 Act as available in prior reprints: “Act No. 9555. Reprint No. 1 as at 14 July 1997 and amending Act Nos 46/1998 and 11/2001.” That citation appears in the text accompanying s 3(2). The Repeal Act uses the First Schedule to the 1981 Act as the source document for “the Agreement” (s 3).

Explanatory materials

• The Endnotes record that “Explanatory Details” contains “No entries at date of publication,” indicating no additional explanatory schedules or amendments were appended post-enactment in the published version of the Repeal Act.

Practical reading

• Practitioners should treat the Act as a short, single-purpose repeal statute with no subsequent legislative modification reported in the Act’s endnotes. The absence of amendments and the clear commencement date means that the Act’s effects are tied to the 2012 timeline: all extinguishments, revocations and transfers took effect on or immediately after 4 April 2012.

Overall, the amendment history is minimal: the Act was passed in 2012 and remains unamended in the publicly provided version.

The printed text of the Act’s Endnotes and the body of the Act contain no references to court decisions, judgments, or litigation arising from the Act. The Endnotes do not record any litigation history and the Act does not list cases.

What the Act records

• The Endnotes provide procedural parliamentary history such as second reading speech dates, the long title of the Bill, assent and commencement dates (Endnotes section). There is no record in the Act text or endnotes of any litigation, declaratory relief proceedings, injunctions, or judicial challenges either by Grawin Pty. Limited, third parties, or private claimants.

Implications for research

• The absence of litigation references in the source text means that any assessment of litigation that might have followed the Act must be made outside this Act’s text. The Act itself does not acknowledge or preserve a path for claims against the Crown relating to the repealed instruments, because s 10(1)-(2) disclaims Crown liability for loss arising out of or in connection with the enactment or termination. If litigation were brought after commencement, the Act’s s 10 would be a central statute to which litigants and courts would have to have regard.

Limitations on claims

• Because the Act extinguishes rights and liabilities and bars Crown liability, litigation challenging the Act’s effects would have to confront the statutory language directly. The Act contains confirmation clauses for instruments not in force at commencement (ss 5(3)-(4), 6(3)-(4)), which would also be relevant to factual disputes about whether a given instrument was in force.

No reported cases named in the Act

• The Act does not name or refer to any legal authorities or judgments. It does not provide transitional judicial mechanisms or alternative dispute resolution processes concerning the termination or revocation.

For practitioners and researchers, the absence of litigation history in the Act itself signals that one must search external databases, court records and ministerial or agency archives to determine whether litigation occurred after enactment. The Act’s text suggests that any post-enactment litigation would need to address statutory extinguishment and the express denial of Crown liability in s 10.

The Act contains concise but legally significant devices that can produce unexpected consequences for affected parties. Below are the practical “gotchas” anchored in specific provisions.

Broad extinguishment language

• “Rights” and “liabilities” are defined expansively in s 3 to include actual, contingent or prospective interests. When s 5(2) and s 6(2) extinguish “all rights and liabilities” of the State and Grawin arising out of or in connection with the Agreement and Crown lease, those clauses reach rights and liabilities that have not yet matured. Parties should not assume that only extant, fully matured rights are affected; contingent contractual claims, future performance entitlements and prospective obligations are all within scope.

Effect regardless of whether instruments were in force

• Sections 5(3)-(4) and 6(3)-(4) state that the extinguishment applies “whether or not the Agreement [or Crown lease] is in force at the commencement of this Act,” and if not in force, termination is “confirmed.” This prevents arguments that a lapsed or suspended instrument survived repeal and means that any uncertainty about the instruments’ operative status at commencement is resolved by confirmation of termination.

No Crown compensation or claims

• Section 10(1) provides that no amount is payable by the Crown for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the enactment, and s 10(2) says the Crown is not liable for any claim arising out of or in connection with the termination of the Agreement or Crown lease. This is an express statutory bar on Crown liability. Parties that might have expected to seek redress from the Crown for losses flowing from termination or revocation will find that avenue foreclosed by the statute.

Revocation of reservations affects land status

• Section 7 revokes reservations of land in the Tourist Resort Area that were permanently reserved under s 4(1) of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 by operation of s 13 of the 1981 Act. Revocation removes the statutory protection and may change planning and usage rights for those parcels. This can have knock-on effects for local governments, lessees and users who relied on the reserved status for access, protections or funding.

Fund consolidation into Consolidated Fund

• Section 9 requires that any amount standing to the credit of the Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund immediately before commencement be paid into the Consolidated Fund. Practically, this means project-dedicated funds are absorbed into general revenue. Parties expecting dedicated ring-fenced funding for reserve management or tourism facilities will no longer have that pot available.

Abolition of the statutory committee without replacement

• Section 8 abolishes the Port Bellarine Committee of Management. The Act does not provide for a successor body or transitional arrangements for functions previously performed by the committee. Administrative responsibilities formerly exercised by the committee will require allocation to other agencies, but the Act does not specify how this must occur.

Limited procedural safeguards within the Act

• The Act contains no transitional consultation, compensation or dispute resolution procedures. Where affected parties seek relief, the Act’s s 10 limits remedies against the Crown and the extinguishment clauses limit remedies deriving from the Agreement and Crown lease.

Potential for third-party confusion

• Third parties,such as contractors, financiers, or successors in title,who relied on contractual positions tied to the Agreement or Crown lease could find their expectations nullified. The Act does not provide express private party savings or substitution rules beyond the blanket extinguishment in ss 5-6.

Interpretation dependencies on the 1981 Act

• Section 3(2) maintains the meanings of words and expressions used in the 1981 Act. Practitioners must consult the 1981 Act’s definitions to identify the precise scope of terms such as “Tourist Resort Area” or other technical terms. Failing to cross-reference the 1981 Act could lead to misidentification of affected land or rights.

Absence of named implementing officer for fund transfer

• Section 9 mandates payment into the Consolidated Fund but does not name the official or agency charged with effecting the transfer. Administrative responsibility will depend on internal agency arrangements and financial controls.

In short, the Act’s terse statutory instruments produce wide legal effects: contingent rights are extinguished, Crown liability is excluded, reserved land statuses are revoked, and dedicated funds are absorbed into consolidated revenue. Parties should not assume residual statutory protections or compensation rights exist as a result of these actions.

The Act itself creates few positive compliance tasks for private parties; most compliance obligations fall on public administrators and asset managers. Below are concrete compliance steps and administrative actions grounded in the Act’s text.

For state agencies and fund administrators

• Identify any amounts standing to the credit of the Port Bellarine Public Reserve Management Fund immediately before commencement and arrange payment into the Consolidated Fund (s 9). The Act imposes a statutory duty to effect the transfer; agencies administering the Fund should document the balance at commencement, the transfer date, the accounting entries and the authority used to make the transfer.
• Update financial records and public accounts to reflect the consolidation of the Fund into the Consolidated Fund. This includes notifying Treasury and ensuring compliance with applicable public finance reporting requirements. The Act does not name the responsible officer; logically the fund administrator and Treasury should coordinate to ensure the statutory direction is satisfied.

For land administration authorities

• Identify land in the Tourist Resort Area that was reserved pursuant to s 13 of the 1981 Act and that is therefore deemed or actually permanently reserved under s 4(1) of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 (s 7(1)). Where such reservations exist, make the required revocation entries and records to reflect that the reservation has been revoked by s 7(2). This will include updating register records, planning overlays and public information about reserve status.
• Notify relevant local government and stakeholders about the revocation if statutory or administrative processes require notice for changes in land status.

For the abolished committee’s administrators

• Cease operations of the Port Bellarine Committee of Management in accordance with s 8. Archive records, close bank accounts (except the Fund balance which must be paid into the Consolidated Fund), and transfer files and responsibilities to the parent agency or other designated body in accordance with standard administrative practices. Although the Act does not prescribe a successor body, agencies should agree on custody and access arrangements for records and land-management histories.

For Grawin Pty. Limited and other private parties

• Recognise that the Agreement and Crown lease are terminated and all rights and liabilities arising out of or in connection with them are extinguished (ss 5(1)-(4), 6(1)-(4)). Parties should review their records to identify any contingent claims, security interests, contractual rights or obligations linked to those instruments, and determine whether alternative private-law remedies exist. The Act’s s 10(2) removes Crown liability for claims in connection with the termination, so pursuing remedies against the Crown under this statutory regime will not be possible.
• If parties hold or claim security interests or registered interests linked to the Crown lease or Agreement, check the land and personal property registries and take steps required by registry rules to record the changed status. Note that the Act does not itself operate to cancel entries in land title registers; practical steps will be required to ensure records reflect statutory changes.

For third parties such as contractors, financiers and successors

• Assess contractual exposure and potential loss arising from the termination. Because the Act extinguishes rights and liabilities and disclaims Crown liability, commercial parties should review alternative contractual or equitable claims that are not dependent on the Agreement or Crown lease for their enforceability.
• Seek documentary confirmation of the date of repeal and termination (commencement: 4 April 2012) for accounting and loss-quantification purposes.

For agencies charged with public communications and planning

• Update public-facing information about reserve status and project history. The Preamble and Endnotes set out the legislative rationale and parliamentary history; agencies responsible for land use planning should reflect the repeal and reservation revocations in planning instruments and public records.

For legal advisers

• Cross-reference definitions in the 1981 Act (s 3(2)) to determine which lands and instruments are affected. The Repeal Act repeatedly relies on the 1981 Act’s definitions, so accurate identification requires consulting the 1981 Act’s First Schedule and s 13.

Record-keeping and evidence

• Where compliance requires showing what existed at commencement (for example, the amount in the Reserve Management Fund immediately before commencement), retain contemporaneous evidence of balances, minutes, notices and registry records. The Act’s obligations and extinguishments are tied to the state of affairs “immediately before the commencement of this Act” in several places (s 9; ss 5(4), 6(4)), so documentary clarity is important.

No statutory claims process

• Parties should note that the Act does not provide a statutory claims or compensation mechanism against the Crown for losses caused by the Act (s 10). Compliance measures therefore focus on documenting loss, preserving private-law remedies where available, and engaging with administrative processes to correct registries and records where necessary.

In short, compliance work arising from the Act is predominantly administrative: effecting the Fund transfer, updating land reservation records, winding up the committee’s affairs, and advising affected private parties of the legal consequences. The Act does not create new private entitlements or a claims process to cure losses resulting from the termination and repeal.