Federal Airports Corporation Regulations (Repeal) 1997 No. 233
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT STATUTORY RULES 1997 No. 233
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Regional Development Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986
Federal Airports Corporation Regulations (Repeal)
Section 74 of the Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986 (the Act) provides that the Governor General may make regulations, for the purposes of the Act, prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving affect to the Act.
Under Section 74 of the Act, the Federal Airports Corporation Regulations, (the Regulations) established a licensing regime for contractors working at the Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport parallel runway construction and dredging sites. The Regulations ensured that environmental standards wore complied with and that specific classes of State lam relating to environmental assessment and development approval processes did not apply to the parallel runway project.
Due to the completion of the parallel runway the Regulations have become redundant and can be repealed.
The repeal of the Regulations removes the licensing powers of the Federal Airports Corporation which are no longer required.
The repeal will take aged on gazettal.