Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AIRPORTS ACT 1996 No. 42, 1996 - SECT 79

(1) Before giving the Minister a draft master plan for an airport under
section 75, 76 or 78, the airport-lessee company for the airport must:

   (a)  cause to be published in a newspaper circulating generally in the
        State or Territory in which the airport is situated a notice:

        (i)    stating that the company has prepared a preliminary version of
               the draft plan; and

        (ii)   stating that copies of the preliminary version will be
               available for inspection and purchase by members of the public
               during normal office hours throughout the period of 90 days
               after the publication of the notice; and

        (iii)  specifying the place or places where the copies will be
               available for inspection and purchase; and

        (iv)   inviting members of the public to give written comments about
               the preliminary version to the company within 90 days after the
               publication of the notice; and

   (b)  make copies of the preliminary version available for inspection and
        purchase by members of the public in accordance with the notice.

(2) If members of the public have given written comments about the preliminary
version in accordance with the notice, the draft plan submitted to the
Minister must be accompanied by a written certificate signed on behalf of the
company:

   (a)  listing the names of those members of the public; and

   (b)  summarising those comments; and

   (c)  stating that the company has had due regard to those comments in
        preparing the draft plan; and

   (d)  setting out such other information (if any) about those comments as is
        specified in the regulations.

(3) Subsection (2) does not, by implication, limit the matters to which the
company may have regard.