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AIRPORTS (CONTROL OF ON-AIRPORT ACTIVITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1997 NO.105

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1997 No. 105

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Regional Development

Airports Act 1996

Airports (Control of On-Airport Activities) 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 170 of the Act provides that regulations may be made to prohibit or regulate the sale, supply, disposal or possession of liquor at a specified airport.

Section 172 of the Act provides that regulations may be made to:

(a)       make provision for and in relation to prohibiting or regulating the parking or use of vehicles within a specified airport; and

(b)       provide for signs and markings for those purposes.

The Airports (Control of On-Airport Activities) Regulations (the Regulations) provide the detail of those parts of the airports regulatory regime dealing with the control of liquor, commercial trading, vehicle movements, gambling and smoking on airports.

The amendments will make a number of minor technical corrections to Part 2 and Schedule 1 of the Regulations (Items 3, 9, 10, 11 and 12), which deal with liquor licensing, that have come to light since the regulations were made. Amendments are also made to Division 4.4, which is concerned with movement of vehicles on the airside of the airport. The main changes to this Division will:

*       allow bodies other than the airport operator company the power to authorise persons and vehicles to operate on the airside (Items 4.1, 6, 7 and 8);

*       provide for the application of the revised Airside Vehicle Control Handbooks at each of the airports (Item 4.2); and

*       rewrite Regulation 4.42 (Item 5).

Details of the amendments to the Regulations appear in the Attachment.

The amendments to the Regulations commenced on 15 May 1997.


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