Airports Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 6) 1998 No. 320
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1998 No. 320
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Regional Services
Airports Act 1996
Airports Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 6)
Section 252 of the Airports Act 1996 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:
a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
Section 5 of the Act defines an airport site to be, inter alia, a place "declared by the regulations to be an airport site; and a Commonwealth place".
The Airports Regulations (the Regulations) specify the airports to be declared "airport sites" and the land titles or plan particulars which define the relevant airport sites. The Regulations currently provide, inter alia, for the site of Sydney Airport.
The Commonwealth has recently purchased land from Sydney Water and annexed the land to Sydney Airport. Regulation 5 amends Schedule 1 of the Regulations to include the title particulars of the annexed land.
The amendments to the Regulations commence on gazettal.