EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

 

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 57

 

 

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

 

Air Navigation Act 1920

 

Air Navigation (Checked Baggage) Repeal Regulations 2008

 

 

Section 26 of the Air Navigation Act 1920 (the Act), provides, in part, that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

 

The purpose of the Repeal Regulations is to repeal the Air Navigation (Checked Baggage) Regulations 2000 (the Principal Regulations) which commenced on 9 June 2000 and regulated checked baggage screening pursuant to section 20 of the Act. Section 20 was repealed upon the commencement of the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 on 10 March 2005 and the Principal Regulations have been redundant since that date.

 

The Repeal Regulations are being replaced by the Aviation Transport Security Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1). These Regulations amend the Aviation Transport Security Regulations 2005 to provide for complete checked baggage screening for certain flights from selected domestic airports.

 

The Repeal Regulations are a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

 

The details of the Repeal Regulations are included in the Attachment.

ATTACHMENT

 

Details of the Air Navigation (Checked Baggage) Repeal Regulations 2008

 

Regulation 1 – Name of Regulations

 

This regulation provides that the title of the Regulations is the Air Navigation (Checked Baggage) Repeal Regulations 2008.

 

Regulation 2 – Commencement

 

The Regulations commence on the day after they are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

 

Regulation 3 – Repeal

 

This regulation repeals the Air Navigation (Checked Baggage) Regulations 2000.