Statewide Treaty Act 2025
221Validity of things done under this Division
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221 Validity of things done under this Division
Nothing effected by, or done or suffered under, this Division—
(a) is to be regarded as placing any person in breach of contract or confidence or as otherwise making any person guilty of a civil wrong; or
(b) is to be regarded as placing any person in breach of, or as constituting a default under, any Act (other than the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006) or other law or 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; or
(c) is to be regarded as fulfilling any condition which allows a person to exercise a right or remedy in respect of, or to terminate, any agreement or obligation; or
(d) is to be regarded as giving rise to any remedy for a party to a contract, an instrument or an oral agreement or as causing or permitting the termination of any contract, instrument or oral agreement because of a change in the beneficial or legal ownership of any property, right or liability; or
(e) is to be regarded as causing any contract, instrument or oral agreement to be void or otherwise unenforceable; or
(f) is to be regarded as frustrating any contract; or
(g) releases any surety or other obligor wholly or in part from any obligation.
Part 20—Consequential amendment of the Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018 and the Treaty Authority and Other Treaty Elements Act 2022
Division 1—Amendment of Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018
222 Definitions
In section 3 of the Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018—
(a) for the definition of Aboriginal Representative Body substitute—
"Aboriginal Representative Body means Gellung Warl;";
(b) in the definition of treaty negotiation framework, for "Part 5;" substitute "Part 5.";
(c) the definitions of Aboriginal Representative Body declaration, Aboriginal Treaty Working Group, misconduct, subsequent Aboriginal Representative Body declaration and are .