AIR NAVIGATION (AERODROME CURFEW) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 109

AIR NAVIGATION (AERODROME CURFEW) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 109

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 109

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Transport

Air Navigation Act 1920

Air Navigation (Aerodrome Curfew) Regulations (Amendment)

Paragraph 26(1) (a) of the Air Navigation Act 1920 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Paragraph 26(2)(e) of the Act provides that the power to make regulations includes the power to make regulations for or in relation to the establishment, maintenance, operation and use of aerodromes.

The Air Navigation (Aerodrome Curfew) Regulations (the Regulations) prohibit aircraft (except aircraft specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subregulation 6 (1)) from landing at or taking off from Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (the Aerodrome) between 11 pm each night and 6 am the following morning (the curfew period) . The Regulations, which have been in operation since December 1989, give legislative effect to administrative arrangements which had been in place since October 1988.

The Regulations will amend subregulation 6 (9) which exempts from the curfew a specified number and type of freight operations by Australian Airlines Limited, Ansett Transport Industries Limited and Mayne Nickless Limited.

The Regulations are amended as follows:

1. Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations are amended as set out.

2. Regulation 2 provides that Regulation 6 is amended by substituting a new subregulation 6 (9) which provides that an aircraft may land at, or take off from, the Aerodrome during a curfew period if the sole purpose of the flight is the carriage of freight and the number of aircraft movements does not exceed:

(a) for A300 aircraft registered in the name of, or operated by or for, Qantas Airways Limited, 6 aircraft movements a week until 4 April 1995 and 9 aircraft movements a week from 4 April 1995.

(b) for BAe-146 aircraft registered in the name of, or operated by or for, Ansett Transport Industries Limited, 28 aircraft movements a week.

(c) for DC9 aircraft registered in the name of, or operated by or for, Mayne Nickless Limited, 12 aircraft movements a week.

(d) for B737-300QC aircraft registered in the name of National Jet Systems Pty Ltd and operated by or for Australian Air Express Pty Ltd, 12 aircraft movements a week until 4 April 1995.

The amending Regulations commence on Gazettal.