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AIR NAVIGATION (AERODROME CURFEW) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 383

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 383

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Transport

Air Navigation Act 1920

Air Navigation (Aerodrome Curfew) Regulations (Amendment)

Paragraph 26 (1) (a) of the Air Navigation Act 1920 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Paragraph 26 (2) (e) of the Act provides that the power to make regulations includes the power to make regulations for or in relation to the establishment, maintenance, operation and use of aerodromes.

The Air Navigation (Aerodrome Curfew) Regulations (the Regulations) impose curfew arrangements at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (the Aerodrome) applying between 11 pm each night and 6am the following morning (the curfew). These arrangements are intended to reduce the night-time noise on the approaches to, and the surrounds of, the Aerodrome.

The Regulations require that landings and take-offs during the curfew take place on the north-south runway over Botany Bay. Prior to construction of the new runway the north-south runway was designated runway 16/34 (the numbers indicate that the runway has a heading of 160 degrees and 340 degrees - depending upon which direction you face it). In accordance with international convention for the designation of parallel runways, the pre-existing runway has now been designated runway 16R/34L and the new runway has been designated runway 16L/34R (the L and R refer to left and right).

These amending Regulations, which pick up the redesignation of the pre-existing north-south runway, maintain the status quo by continuing to require curfew operations to take place over Botany Bay using the pre-existing north-south runway.

These Regulations commenced on gazettal.