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AIRPORTS (CONTROL OF ON-AIRPORT ACTIVITIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1997 NO.178

Statutory Rules 1997 No. 178

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

Airports Act 1996

Airports (Control of On-Airport Activities) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 252 of the Airport Act 1996 (the Act) allows the Governor-General to make regulations prescribing matters:

(a)       required or permitted by this 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 4, 5, 6 and 8), which deal with liquor licensing, that have come to light since the regulations were made. Amendments are also made to Part 1 to provide a definition of "infringement notice offence" and to Part 7 to provide that parking infringement notices can be served upon a vehicle by being fixed to the vehicle in a conspicuous position.

These changes are being introduced after a review of the Regulations highlighted their need.

Details on the amendments to the Regulations appear in the attachment.

The Regulations commenced on 1 July 1997.