148Effect of things done under Act

148 Effect of things done under Act (1) This section applies to the following: (a) the enactment, commencement or operation of this Act or the making, commencement or operation of any statutory instrument made under this Act (including a statutory instrument that amends this Act); (b) the amendment, repeal or modification by this Act of any law of the Territory; (c) any alteration resulting from this Act to any rules applicable to the management or operation of a designated port (including any notices, directions or orders issued or given, or policies adopted, by the Darwin Port Corporation under the Darwin Port Corporation Act 1983 before its repeal); (d) the doing, or omitting to do, of any other act, matter or thing under, or for, this Act or any statutory instrument made under this Act. (2) The acts, matters or things to which this section applies: (a) are not to be regarded as placing any person in breach of contract or confidence or as otherwise making any person guilty of a civil wrong; and (b) are not to be regarded as placing any person in breach of, or as constituting a default under: (i) any law of the Territory; or (ii) any provision in any agreement, arrangement or understanding including, but not limited to, any provision prohibiting, restricting or regulating the assignment or transfer of any property or the disclosure of any information; and

Ports Management Act 2015 108 (c) are not to be regarded as fulfilling any condition that allows a person to exercise a right or remedy in respect of, or to terminate, any agreement or obligation; and (d) are not to be regarded as giving rise to any remedy for a party to a contract or an instrument or as causing or permitting the termination of any contract or instrument because of a change in the beneficial or legal ownership of any property, right or liability; and (e) are not to be regarded as causing any contract or instrument to be void or otherwise unenforceable; and (f) are not to be regarded as frustrating any contract; and (g) do not release any surety or other obligee wholly or in part from any obligation.