FEDERAL AIRPORTS CORPORATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1993 NO. 344

FEDERAL AIRPORTS CORPORATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1993 NO. 344

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 344

Issued by Authority of the Minister of Transport and Communications

Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986

Federal Airports Corporation Regulations (Amendments)

Section 74 of the Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986 (the Act) provides that the Governor General may make regulations, for the purposes of the Act, prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act

Paragraph 6(a) of the Act provides that the functions of the Corporation include the operation of Federal airports. Paragraph 8(1)(a) of the Act provides that the functions of the Corporation referred to in paragraph 6 (a) extend to reviewing the use and capacity of existing Federal airports, determining the necessity or desirability of extending or otherwise altering Federal airports and carrying out necessary or desirable extensions to, or alterations of, Federal airports.

The Federal Airports Corporation Regulations (Statutory Rules 1992 No. 255) establish a licensing regime for contractors working at the parallel runway construction site at Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport and dredging sites in Botany Bay to ensure that environmental standards are complied with. The Regulations also ensure that specified classes of State laws relating to environmental assessment and development approval processes do not apply to the parallel runway project.

The Regulations define precisely the areas in which the Federal Airports Corporation can licence persons to exercise dredging rights.

The Federal Airports Corporation has proposed to modify its dredging operations for the parallel runway project and has commenced processes to compulsorily acquire dredging rights identical to those which the FAC already has over other areas in Botany Bay in the land identified as A4 in Lot 402 in a plan registered at the New South Wales Land Titles Office as Deposited Plan No 648068 ("A4").

The proposed amendments to the Regulations amend the definition of "dredging site" in subregulation 3(1) to include A4. They also amend the definition of "rights" to include the interests in A4 identified in the declaration made by the Minister for the Arts and Administrative Services under section 22 of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989 and notified in the Gazette on 15 September 1993. These amendments will ensure that the existing environmental standards and controls contained in the Regulations are extended to A4.

The proposed amendments to the Regulations also correct a number of minor typographical errors which were identified by the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances.

The proposed amendments to the Regulations would commence on gazettal.