EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1985 No 22
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Aviation
AIRPORTS (BUSINESS CONCESSIONS) REGULATIONS
Section 16 of the Airports (Business Concessions) Act 1959 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Paragraph 15(1)(a) of the Act provides that the Minister may delegate, by writing signed by him, to any prescribed person or any person included in a prescribed class of persons his power to grant authority to sell or supply intoxicating liquor.
The regulations prescribe persons and classes of persons for the purposes of paragraph 15(1)(a) of the Act.
Regulation 3 permits the Minister to delegate to a person holding, occupying or performing the duties of the office of the Secretary to the Department of Aviation or other specified offices in the Department of Aviation his power under the Act to approve the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor at an airport. The departmental offices specified are the offices of Deputy Secretary; First Assistant Secretary, Airports Division; Regional Director; Assistant Regional Director (Airports); and Assistant Director (Operations), Airports Branch.