Airports Regulations (Amendment) 1997 No. 103
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1997 No. 103
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Regional Development
Airports Act 1996
Airports Regulations (Amendment)
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".
The Airports Regulations (the Regulations), inter alia, specify the land titles that comprise the airports sites.
The Federal Airports Corporation has acquired land at Perth Airport and Melbourne (Tullamarine) Airport subsequent to the making of the Regulations. The proposed amendment to Schedule 1 of the Regulations inserts the titles of these recent acquisitions to extend the site descriptions of Perth Airport and Melbourne (Tullamarine) Airport and makes a minor correction.
The amendments to the Regulations commenced upon notification in the Gazette.