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AIRPORTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1998 NO. 70

STATUTORY RULES 1998 No. 70

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

Airports Act 1996

Airports 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 5 of the Act defines an airport site to be, inter alia, a place "declared by the regulations to be an airport site; and a Commonwealth place".

The purpose of the amendments is to correct erroneous land title descriptions for a number of airports. The Airports Regulations (the Regulations) specify the airports to be declared "airport sites", and Schedule 1 of the Regulations prescribes the land title descriptions or plan particulars which define those airport sites. A review of the land title descriptions of the airports in Schedule 1 has revealed a number of errors in the descriptions for Adelaide, Alice Springs, Archerfield, Coolangatta, Essendon, Moorabbin, and Tennant Creek airports. The amendments to the Regulations correct those errors.