| C2004C01811 | AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959
- Reprinted as at 19 December 1973 (HISTACT CHAP 1868 #DATE 19:12:1973)
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Act to bind Crown
5. Application of Act to Territories
6. Leases and licences
7. Prohibition on trading, &c., without authority
8. Authority to trade, &c.
9. Exercise of authorities
10. Inspection of premises, &c.
11. Periods of leases, &c.
12. Saving of existing leases and licences
13. Warrants to obtain possession of land
14. Evidence of certain matters
15. Delegation
16. Regulations
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 1.
Short title.
SECT
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT
1959-1973
An Act to provide for the Grant of Leases, Licences and Trading Rights in
connexion with Commonwealth Airports.
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. This Act may be cited as the Airports (Business Concessions) Act
1959-1973.*
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation.*
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 3.
Definitions.
SECT
3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
''airport'' means-
(a) an aerodrome owned, or held under lease, by the Commonwealth and
operated in pursuance of the Air Navigation Act 1920-1950 or of the
regulations under that Act; or
(b) such part of an aerodrome owned, or held under lease, by the
Commonwealth and under the control of a part of the Defence Force as is made
available for civil aviation purposes in pursuance of arrangements made by the
Minister administering that Act;
''lease'' includes a sub-lease.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 4.
Act to bind Crown.
SECT
4. This Act binds the Crown in right of a State.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 5.
Application of Act to Territories.
SECT
Sub-section (1) amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
5. (1) Except in accordance with a Proclamation under this section, this Act
does not apply in an internal Territory or extend to an external Territory.
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
(2) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that, on and after a
date specified in the Proclamation, this Act shall apply in an internal
Territory so specified, or shall extend to an external Territory so
specified.*
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
(3) Where, in a Territory to which this Act extends, the Commonwealth
operates an aerodrome in pursuance of the Air Navigation Act 1920-1950 or of
the regulations under that Act on land that is owned by the Crown in right of
the Territory or by the Administration of the Territory and has been made
available for the purposes of the aerodrome otherwise than by a lease, this
Act applies in relation to that aerodrome as if it were an airport as defined
in section three of this Act, except that the Minister is not authorized to
grant a lease in respect of land within such an aerodrome.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 6.
Leases and licences.
SECT
6. (1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth-
(a) grant leases and licences in respect of land within an airport on such
terms and conditions, and subject to payment of such rent or other
consideration, as the Minister thinks fit; and
(b) exercise any power or remedy of the Commonwealth in respect of any such
lease or licence.
(2) This section has effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Lands
Acquisition Act 1955-1957.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 7.
Prohibition on trading, &c., without authority.
SECT
7. (1) Except in accordance with an authority granted under the next
succeeding section and the terms and conditions of that authority, a person
shall not, within an airport, either personally or by his servant or agent, or
as the servant or agent of another person-
(a) sell, for delivery within the airport, or supply, any goods or
services;
(b) carry on, or solicit for, any business; or
(c) erect, display or distribute, or communicate by sound, any
advertisement or public notice.
Amended by No. 93, 1966, s. 3.
(2) A person who contravenes the last preceding sub-section is guilty of an
offence punishable, upon a first conviction, by a fine of not more than Two
hundred dollars and, upon a second or subsequent conviction, by a fine of not
less than One hundred dollars and not more than One thousand dollars.
(3) Sub-section (1) of this section does not apply to or in relation to-
(a) the making or performance, by an operator of air transport services, of
contracts for the carriage of passengers or goods by air or for the carriage
by that operator between the airport and any premises of that operator of
passengers or goods that have been, or are to be, carried by that operator by
air;
(b) the advertising, by an operator of air transport services, of those
services or other transport services or of tourist facilities; or
(c) the sale or supply to the owner or operator of aircraft of goods or
services required for the maintenance or operation of the aircraft or for use
or consumption-
(i) aboard the aircraft; or
(ii) at the airport by persons employed by him.
(4) This section does not affect the enforcement of any civil remedy against
a person.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 8.
Authority to trade, &c.
SECT
8. (1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, by writing under his
hand, grant to a person an authority to do, either personally, or by his
servants or agents, or both, any act or thing referred to in sub-section (1)
of the last preceding section.
(2) An authority under this section-
(a) may be included in, or granted in relation to, a lease or licence in
respect of particular land within an airport; and
(b) shall, subject to the next succeeding section, be granted for such
period, on such terms and conditions and for such consideration as the
Minister thinks fit.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 9.
Exercise of authorities.
SECT
9. (1) The holder of an authority under this Act, and the servants and
agents of such a holder, may, subject to the terms and conditions of the
authority, act in accordance with the authority without obtaining or having
any other authority, licence, permit or registration.
(2) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the Minister may, having
regard to the special needs of the travelling public, specify in the terms and
conditions of an authority under this Act the days on which, and the times
during which, the authority may be exercised, and the authority may lawfully
be exercised on those days and during those times.
(3) An authority under this Act to sell or supply intoxicating liquor shall
contain terms and conditions under which the holder is subject to
requirements, prohibitions and restrictions as to the days on which, and the
times during which, such liquor may be sold or supplied corresponding to, and
to other requirements, prohibitions and restrictions corresponding, as nearly
as possible, to, those that apply, under the law of the State or Territory in
which the airport is situated, in relation to the sale or supply of such
liquor in pursuance of a licence under that law of the kind that most nearly
corresponds with the authority under this Act.
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
(4) An authority under this Act shall contain such terms and conditions as
the Minister thinks necessary for the purpose of preventing the sale or supply
of goods or services, in pursuance of the authority, to persons resorting to
the airport solely or principally for the purpose of purchasing or obtaining
goods or services at times outside the days and hours of trading or business
that would be applicable, under the law of the State or Territory in which the
airport is situated, in relation to like transactions in the part of that
State or Territory in which the airport is situated.
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
(5) Except as provided in this section, a lease, licence or authority under
this Act does not exempt a person from compliance with the law of a State or
Territory.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 10.
Inspection of premises, &c.
SECT
10. (1) An authority under this Act shall contain such terms and conditions
in relation to the inspection of premises, the keeping and inspection of books
and records and the inspection and sampling of goods as the Minister considers
necessary for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Governor-General may, for the purposes of this Act, arrange with the
Governor of a State for the performance by members of the Police Force of the
State or by persons employed in the public service of the State, for the
Government of the Commonwealth, of any work or services, and for the payment
to be made by the Commonwealth for any such work or services.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 11.
Periods of leases, &c.
SECT
11. (1) Subject to this section, a lease, licence or authority under this
Act, other than a lease, licence or authority for purposes directly related to
the operation of air transport services, shall not be granted-
(a) for a period exceeding-
(i) in the case of a building lease or an authority included in, or
granted in relation to, such a lease-ninety-nine years; or
(ii) in any other case-twenty-one years; or
(b) except after tenders have been publicly invited or after public
auction.
(2) Paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-section does not apply in
relation to a lease, licence or authority granted-
(a) for a period not exceeding three years; or
(b) in pursuance of an option of renewal.
(3) Nothing in this section affects any rights (including an option of
renewal) granted before the commencement of this Act.
(4) For the purposes of this section the period of a lease, licence or
authority shall be deemed to include any period for which it is renewable
under an option of renewal.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 12.
Saving of existing leases and licences.
SECT
12. (1) A lease or licence in respect of land within an airport granted by
or on behalf of the Commonwealth before the date of commencement of this Act
and in force immediately before that date continues in force as if granted
under this Act, and accordingly any power or remedy of the Commonwealth, or of
any person on behalf of the Commonwealth, in respect of any such lease or
licence is exercisable by the Minister.
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
(2) In relation to an airport in a Territory, a reference in this section to
the date of commencement of this Act shall be read as a reference to the date
specified in a Proclamation under section five of this Act as the date on and
after which this Act shall apply in, or extend to, that Territory.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 13.
Warrants to obtain possession of land.
SECT
13. In the application of section fifty-seven of the Lands Acquisition Act
1955-1957 in relation to land within an airport, references in that section to
the Minister shall be read as references to the Minister of State for the time
being administering this Act or any Minister or member of the Executive
Council for the time being acting for and on behalf of that Minister.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 14.
Evidence of certain matters.
SECT
14. (1) The Minister may, by writing under his hand, certify that, on a
specified date or during a specified period, an airport, within the meaning of
this Act, existed at a place, and had the boundaries, described, by reference
to a map or otherwise, in the certificate and may, in the certificate, certify
as to the existence, situation and description of any physical features
(including buildings or other erections) of or upon the airport at that date
or within that period.
(2) In a prosecution under this Act, a certificate under this section is
evidence of the matters certified.
(3) A document purporting to be a certificate under this section and to be
signed by a person by virtue of a delegation to that person of the powers of
the Minister under this section may be admitted in evidence as such a
certificate without proof of the delegation or of the signature of that
person.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 15.
Delegation.
SECT
15. (1) The Minister may, either generally or in relation to a matter or
class of matters and either in relation to all airports or a particular
airport or particular airports, by writing under his hand delegate to a person
or persons all or any of his powers and functions under this Act (except this
power of delegation and his power to grant an authority to sell or supply
alcoholic liquor).
(2) A power or function so delegated may be exercised or performed by the
delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation.
(3) A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not
prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the
Minister.
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - SECT. 16.
Regulations.
SECT
16. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act.
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AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) ACT 1959-1973 - NOTES
NOTES
1. The Airports (Business Concessions) Act 1959-1973 comprises the Airports
(Business Concessions) Act 1959 as amended by the other Acts specified in the
following table:
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Number Date of
Act and year Date of
Assent commencement
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Airports (Business
Concessions) Act 1959 No. 89, 1959 3 Dec 1959 29 Jan 1960 (see
Gazette 1960, p.
225)
Statute Law Revision
(Decimal Currency) Act
1966 No. 93, 1966 29 Oct 1966 1 Dec 1966
Statute Law Revision Act
1973 No. 216, 1973 19 Dec 1973 31 Dec 1973
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2.-S. 5 (2)-For Proclamations made before 31 December 1973, see :
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Territory Date of application Gazette
reference
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Australian Capital Territory 25 Mar 1960 1960, p. 871
Northern Territory 17 Dec 1960 1960, p. 4133
Papua New Guinea 17 Dec 1960 1960, p. 4134
Norfolk Island 21 Aug 1961 1961, p. 3119
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