Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AIRPORTS ACT 1996

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      1 Short title  
   2.      2 Commencement  
   3.      3 Objects  
   4.      4 Simplified outline  
   5.      5 Definitions  
   6.      6 Sydney West Airport  
   7.      7 Meaning of core regulated airport  
   8.      8 Crown to be bound  
   9.      9 External Territories  
   10.     10 Extra-territorial operation  
   11.     11 Simplified outline  
   12.     12 Airports to which Part applies  
   13.     13 Commonwealth may grant airport lease  
   14.     14 Rules about airport leases  
   15.     15 Termination of airport lease if lessee ceases to be a qualified company  
   16.     16 Person may acquire only one airport lease  
   17.     17 No simultaneous grant of leases to the same person  
   18.     18 Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport and Sydney West Airport to be under common ownership  
   19.     19 Only one lease per airport site  
   20.     20 No simultaneous grant of leases relating to the same airport site  
   21.     21 No grant of lease if Part 3 contravened  
   22.     22 Airport lease granted subject to existing interests in the land  
   23.     23 Restriction on acquisition of airport lease  
   24.     24 No transfer of airport lease without approval of Minister  
   25.     25 No transfer of lease if Part 3 contravened  
   26.     26 No declaration of trust in respect of airport lease  
   27.     27 Beneficial interest in airport lease must not be transferred independently of legal interest  
   28.     28 Notification of acquisition of lease-enforcement of loan security  
   29.     29 Re-transfer of lease-enforcement of loan security  
   30.     30 Termination of airport lease otherwise than under this Act  
   31.     31 Authority to use airport site as an airport  
   32.     32 Airport-operator company must not carry on non-airport business  
   33.     33 Airport-management agreements  
   34.     34 Regulations may prohibit subleases of airport leases  
   35.     35 Regulations may prohibit licences relating to airport leases  
   36.     36 Lands Acquisition Act 1989 not to apply to anything done under this Part  
   37.     37 Entries in title registers  
   38.     38 Simplified outline  
   39.     39 Definitions in Schedule  
   40.     40 Meaning of unacceptable foreign-ownership situation  
   41.     41 Acquisitions of shares  
   42.     42 Compliance by airport-operator company  
   43.     43 Remedial orders  
   44.     44 Meaning of unacceptable airline-ownership situation  
   45.     45 Acquisitions of shares  
   46.     46 Compliance by airport-operator company  
   47.     47 Remedial orders  
   48.     48 Simplified outline  
   49.     49 Pairs of airport-operator companies  
   50.     50 Meaning of unacceptable cross-ownership situation  
   51.     51 Acquisitions of shares  
   52.     52 Compliance by airport-operator companies  
   53.     53 Remedial orders  
   54.     54 Meaning of control  
   55.     55 Minister may declare person to have practical control of an airport-operator company  
   56.     56 Requirement to relinquish practical control or reduce stake  
   57.     57 Remedial orders  
   58.     58 Head office to be in Australia  
   59.     59 Majority of directors must be Australian citizens or Australian residents  
   60.     60 Record-keeping and giving of information  
   61.     61 Concurrent operation of State/Territory laws  
   62.     62 Validity of acts done in contravention of this Part  
   63.     63 Acquisition of property  
   64.     64 Simplified outline  
   65.     65 Anti-avoidance-assets etc.  
   66.     66 Anti-avoidance-airport-management agreements  
   67.     67 Simplified outline  
   68.     68 Airports to which Part applies  
   69.     69 Simplified outline  
   70.     70 Final master plans  
   71.     71 Contents of draft or final master plan  
   72.     72 Planning period  
   73.     73 Assumption of continuity of lease  
   74.     74 Plan does not lapse when lease transferred  
   75.     75 Draft master plan to be given to Minister after acquisition or grant of airport lease  
   76.     76 New draft master plan to be submitted before expiry of old plan  
   77.     77 Duration of final master plan  
   78.     78 Replacement of final master plan  
   79.     79 Public comment  
   80.     80 Consultations  
   81.     81 Approval of draft by Minister  
   82.     82 Transfer of airport lease during approval process  
   83.     83 Effect of approval  
   84.     84 Minor variation of final master plan  
   85.     85 Notification of matters that may affect the achievement of final master plan  
   86.     86 Publication of final master plan or variation of final master plan  
   87.     87 Transitional-adoption of FAC documents  
   88.     88 Simplified outline  
   89.     89 Meaning of major airport development  
   90.     90 Major airport development must not be carried out except in accordance with an approved major development plan  
   91.     91 Contents of major development plan  
   92.     92 Public comment  
   93.     93 Consultations  
   94.     94 Approval of major development plan by Minister  
   95.     95 Minor variation of major development plan  
   96.     96 Publication of major development plan or variation of major development plan  
   97.     97 Simplified outline  
   98.     98 Interpretation  
   99.     99 Building activities not to be carried out without approval  
   100.    100 Regulations about building approvals  
   101.    101 Building approval to be consistent with final master plan and major development plan  
   102.    102 Offence of contravening conditions  
   103.    103 Remedial directions  
   104.    104 Certificates of fitness  
   105.    105 Eligible alterations  
   106.    106 Requirement for certificate of fitness  
   107.    107 Regulations about certificates of fitness  
   108.    108 Offence of contravening conditions  
   109.    109 Remedial directions  
   110.    110 Transitional-buildings and structures in existence when airport lease first granted  
   111.    111 Infringement notices  
   112.    112 Exclusion of State/Territory laws  
   113.    113 Simplified outline  
   114.    114 Airports to which Division applies  
   115.    115 Final environment strategies  
   116.    116 Contents of draft or final environment strategy  
   117.    117 Strategy period  
   118.    118 Assumption of continuity of lease  
   119.    119 Strategy does not lapse when lease transferred  
   120.    120 Draft environment strategy to be given to Minister after acquisition or grant of airport lease  
   121.    121 New draft environment strategy to be submitted before expiry of old strategy  
   122.    122 Duration of final environment strategy  
   123.    123 Replacement of final environment strategy  
   124.    124 Public comment  
   125.    125 Consultations  
   126.    126 Approval of draft by Minister  
   127.    127 Transfer of airport lease during approval process  
   128.    128 Effect of approval  
   129.    129 Minor variation of final environment strategy  
   130.    130 Compliance with final environment strategy  
   131.    131 Publication of final environment strategy or variation of final environment strategy  
   132.    132 Regulations about environmental standards at airports  
   133.    133 Regulations about monitoring, and remedying breaches of, environmental standards at airports  
   134.    134 Remedying breaches of environmental standards-recovery of expenses by airport-operator company  
   135.    135 Remedying breaches of environmental standards-recovery of expenses by the Commonwealth  
   136.    136 Operation of State/Territory laws  
   137.    137 Severability  
   138.    138 Infringement notices  
   139.    139 Simplified outline  
   140.    140 Airports to which Part applies  
   141.    141 Preparation and retention of accounts  
   142.    142 Audit of accounts  
   143.    143 Lodgment of accounts with the ACCC  
   144.    144 Approved auditor  
   145.    145 Airport reports  
   146.    146 Record-keeping  
   147.    147 Protection of documents given to the ACCC  
   148.    148 Part supplements the Trade Practices Act 1974 and the Prices Surveillance Act 1983  
   149.    149 Concurrent operation of State/Territory laws  
   150.    150 Simplified outline  
   151.    151 Airports to which Part applies  
   152.    152 Airport services and facilities  
   153.    153 Performance indicators  
   154.    154 Examples of performance indicators  
   155.    155 Monitoring by the ACCC  
   156.    156 Record-keeping and giving of information  
   157.    157 Publication of quality of service information  
   158.    158 Protection of information given to the ACCC  
   159.    159 Part supplements the Trade Practices Act 1974 and the Prices Surveillance Act 1983  
   160.    160 Simplified outline  
   161.    161 Variation of airport sites-consent of lessee  
   162.    162 Closure of airport sites  
   163.    163 Surrender of airport leases  
   164.    164 Simplified outline  
   165.    165 Designated international agreements  
   166.    166 Regulations may give effect to designated international agreements  
   167.    167 Compliance by airport operators with regulations  
   168.     168 Simplified outline  
   169.    169 Airports to which Part applies  
   170.    170 Control of liquor  
   171.    171 Control of commercial trading  
   172.    172 Control of vehicle movements  
   173.    173 Control of gambling  
   174.    174 Control of smoking  
   175.    175 Enforcement  
   176.    176 Infringement notices  
   177.    177 Operation of State/Territory laws  
   178.    178 Submissions  
   179.    179 Simplified outline  
   180.    180 Airports to which Part applies  
   181.    181 Prescribed airspace  
   182.    182 Controlled activities  
   183.    183 Controlled activities not to be carried out without approval  
   184.    184 Regulations about approvals  
   185.    185 Offence of contravening conditions  
   186.    186 Notification of proposals to carry out controlled activities  
   187.    187 Remedial orders  
   188.    188 Compensation-constitutional safety-net  
   189.    189 Severability  
   190.    190 Part supplements regulations under the Civil Aviation Act 1988  
   191.    191 Simplified outline  
   192.    192 Application of the access regime in Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act 1974  
   193.    193 Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act 1974 to be subject to the demand management provisions of this Part  
   194.    194 Scope of demand management provisions  
   195.    195 Airport capacity declarations  
   196.    196 Public comment  
   197.    197 Submissions  
   198.    198 Declarations subjecting airports to statutory demand management  
   199.    199 Criteria for making declaration  
   200.    200 Submissions  
   201.    201 Demand management schemes  
   202.    202 Submissions  
   203.    203 Types of schemes  
   204.    204 Category exclusion schemes  
   205.    205 Slot allocation schemes  
   206.    206 Movement limitation schemes  
   207.    207 Concurrent schemes  
   208.    208 Compliance with demand management schemes  
   209.    209 Infringement notices  
   210.    210 Part supplements Sydney Airport Curfew Act  
   211.    211 Part supplements Air Navigation Regulations  
   212.    212 Recurring intervals of time  
   213.    213 Specification of 2 or more intervals of time  
   214.    214 Severability  
   215.    215 Simplified outline  
   216.    216 Air traffic services, and rescue and fire fighting services, not to be provided without approval  
   217.    217 Simplified outline  
   218.    218 Injunctions  
   219.    219 Interim injunctions  
   220.    220 Discharge etc. of injunctions  
   221.    221 Certain limits on granting injunctions not to apply  
   222.    222 Other powers of the court unaffected  
   223.    223 Simplified outline  
   224.    224 Prosecutions of corporations  
   225.    225 Prosecutions of persons other than corporations  
   226.    226 Simplified outline  
   227.    227 False or misleading statements-general  
   228.    228 Incorrect records  
   229.    229 False or misleading information given to airport-operator companies  
   230.    230 Incorrect accounts and statements  
   231.    231 False or misleading audit certificates  
   232.    232 Simplified outline  
   233.    233 Authorised officers  
   234.    234 Identity cards  
   235.    235 Searches to monitor compliance with Part 5 or 6-occupier consents  
   236.    236 Monitoring warrants  
   237.    237 Power to require persons to answer questions etc.  
   238.    238 Monitoring powers  
   239.    239 Airport premises  
   240.    240 References to Part 5 or 6  
   241.    241 Simplified outline  
   242.    242 Review of decisions by Administrative Appeals Tribunal  
   243.    243 Tabling of Ministerial statements about certain decisions  
   244.    244 Delegation  
   245.    245 Indictable offences  
   246.    246 Constitutional corporations  
   247.    247 Severability  
   248.    248 Application of the Trade Practices Act 1974  
   249.    249 Relocation of abandoned aircraft etc.  
   250.    250 Access to airports for defence-related purposes and for emergency or disaster relief  
   251.    251 Compensation for access to airports for defence-related purposes and for emergency or disaster relief  
   252.    252 Regulations  
   253.    253 Repeals  
           SCHEDULE
            
           (Assented to 9 October 1996)