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1992 No. 255 FEDERAL AIRPORTS CORPORATION REGULATIONS - REG 3

Interpretation
3. (1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Airport" means Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport;

"Botany Bay Environmental Management Plan Stage 1" means the document of that
title published by the Corporation on 20 July 1992, available from the
Corporation and as in existence on the day on which these Regulations
commence;

"Chief Executive Officer" means:

   (a)  the person appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation
        under subsection 58 (1) of the Act; or

   (b)  a person appointed to act as Chief Executive Officer under subsection
        59 (1) of the Act;

"dredging site" means the land:

   (a)  being part of Certificate of Title Folio Identifier 41/815358 of the
        State of New South Wales; and

   (b)  identified as "A1", "A3/1", "A3/2", "B", "C", "D", "F", "G", "H", "V",
        "X" and "Y" in the plan lodged for registration at the New South Wales
        Land Titles Office as Deposited Plan No. 816961;

"Environmental Impact Statement" means:

   (a)  the document published by the Corporation in accordance with the
        Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, available from
        the Corporation and entitled "Proposed Third Runway Sydney (Kingsford
        Smith) Airport Draft Environmental Impact Statement., as in existence
        on the day on which these Regulations commence; and

   (b)  the document published by the Corporation in 2 volumes in accordance
        with the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974,
        available from the Corporation and entitled "Proposed Third Runway
        Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport Supplement to the Draft
        Environmental Impact Statement., as in existence on the day on which
        these Regulations commence;

"environmental recommendations" means the recommendations:

   (a)  made by the Minister for the Arts, Sport, the Environment and
        Territories in accordance with the Administrative Procedures approved
        under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974; and

   (b)  set out in Schedule 1;

"environmental standards" means the measures for monitoring, preventing and
mitigating the adverse environmental effects of carrying out the works, and
exercising the rights, that are set out in:

   (a)  the Botany Bay Environmental Management Plan Stage 1; or

   (b)  the Environmental Impact Statement; or

   (c)  the environmental recommendations;

"licensee" means:

   (a)  the holder of a licence; or

   (b)  an employee of the holder of a licence; or

   (c)  a minor contractor of the holder of a licence;

"licence" means:

   (a)  a rights licence; or

   (b)  a works licence;

"minor contractor" means a person, or an employee of a person, who is engaged
by another person under a contract to carry out works, or exercise rights,
for:

   (a)  if the fee is set out in the contract-a fee of less than $50,000; or

   (b)  in any other case-a fee that is likely to be less than $50,000 at the
        time that the contract is entered into;

"rights" means the interests in the dredging site that are identified in a
declaration made by the Minister of State for Administrative Services under
section 22 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 and notified in the Gazette on 13
May 1992;

"rights licence" means a licence granted under paragraph 8 (1) (b);

"the Act" means the Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986;

"works" means the works set out in Schedule 2;

"works licence" means a licence granted under paragraph 8 (1) (a).

(2) A reference in these Regulations to a provision of a law of the State of
New South Wales is a reference to a law of that State applied in and in
relation to Commonwealth places in that State under the Commonwealth Places 
(Application of Laws) Act 1970 .

(3) In these Regulations, an example of a law, or a provision of a law, of the
State of New South Wales is an example of the kind of law, or provision of a
law, that is referred to in that subregulation or paragraph.

(4) If an example of the meaning of a reference to a kind of law, or provision
of a law, of the State of New South Wales appears in a subregulation or
paragraph of these Regulations:

   (a)  the example is not to be taken to be exhaustive; and

   (b)  if the example is inconsistent with the remainder of the subregulation
        or paragraph, the remainder of the subregulation or paragraph
        prevails. 


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