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AIRPORTS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2000 (NO. 2) 2000 NO. 269

STATUTORY RULES 2000 No. 269

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

Airports Act 1996

Airports Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2)

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

(a) required or permitted to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the 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 Airports Regulations 1997 ("the Regulations") specify the airports to be declared "airport sites", and Schedule 1 to the Regulations prescribes the land titles or plan particulars which define the relevant airport sites. The Regulations provide for the sites of all leased Federal airports.

The purpose of the Amendment Regulations is to redefine the boundaries of the Moorabbin Airport (Victoria) to provide for the transfer of land, currently included in that site, to the City of Kingston for a slip lane which will provide access to the airport site from Centre Dandenong Road.

The Amendment Regulations, which amend Schedule 1 of the Regulations, commenced on gazettal.