Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 1997
Citation changes
Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 1997
22 Dec 1998
Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations
19 Feb 1997 - 18 Feb 1997

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Administered by

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

This item is authorised by the following title:

Airports Act 1996

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F2009C00195

18 March 2009 - 08 August 2012

This instrument was backcaptured in accordance with Section 36 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003

Table of contents

1.01 Name of regulations [see Note 1]
1.02 Objects
1.03 Limited application to aircraft activities
1.03A Airports to which Division 3 of Part 6 of the Act applies
1.04 Effect on other laws
1.05 Definitions
1.06 References to Australian Standards (AS)
1.07 Who is an operator of an undertaking at an airport
1.08 Testing
2.01 What is air pollution
2.02 What is water pollution
2.03 What is soil pollution
2.04 What is offensive noise
3.01 Airports to which Division 2 of Part 6 of the Act applies
3.01A Application of this Part
3.02 Participation by operators of undertakings at an airport
3.03 Sites of indigenous significance
3.04 Operations other than airport operations
3.05 Environment management training
3.06 Management of airport site
3.07 Identification of environmentally significant areas of airport site
3.08 Identification of sources of environmental impact at airport
3.09 Proposed studies, reviews and monitoring
3.10 Proposed measures for preventing, controlling or reducing environmental impact
3.11 Sublessees and licensees to be aware of strategy
4.01 General duty to avoid polluting
4.02 Assumed compliance with general duty
4.03 Duty — pollution control equipment
4.04 General duty to preserve
4.05 Duty to give notice of cultural, etc discovery
4.06 General duty to prevent offensive noise occurring
4.07 Assumed compliance with general duty
4.08 Duty — noisy, or potentially noisy, equipment
4.09 Duty — noise control equipment
5.01 Purpose
5.02 Airport-lessee company may initiate consultations
5.03 Application to Minister
5.04 Determination of application
5.05 Notification of determination
5.06 Effect of authorisation
5.07 Application for authorisation
5.08 Certain applications to be advertised
5.09 Determination of application
5.10 Notification of decision
5.11 Authorisation holder to comply with plan
5.12 Duration of authorisations
5.13 Urgently required authorisations
5.14 Notification to airport-lessee company
5.15 Public notification
5.16 Authorisations may be varied or revoked
5.17 Annual report by holder
5.18 Failure to comply with condition of authorisation
5.19 Authorisation may be transferred
6.01 Existing pollution to be reported
6.02 Airport-lessee company to monitor pollution levels
6.03 Annual report
6.04 Additional reporting requirements
6.05 Duties of sublessees and licensees
6.06 Inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected
6.07 Duty to assess soil condition
6.08 Assessment of contamination of soil
6.09 Expert site examination
6.10 Eligible persons to be appointed assessor
6.11 Conduct of examination
6.12 Site investigator’s report
6.13 Assessor’s report
6.14 Occupier may prepare remedial plan
6.15 Reporting of plan
6.16 Duty of airport environment officer to monitor plan
6.17 Interpretation
6.18 Power to order remedial work
6.19 Power to enter and perform remedial work
7.01 Pollution
7.02 Preservation of habitat, etc
7.03 Excessive noise
7.04 Order must not conflict with authorisation
7.05 Compliance with order
7.06 Compliance with condition of authorisation
8.01 Continuing offences
8.02 Purpose of this Division
8.03 Infringement notices
8.04 Extension of time to pay
8.05 Payment by instalments
8.06 If infringement notice disputed
8.07 Payment of penalty if infringement notice not withdrawn
8.08 Effect of payment of infringement notice penalty
8.09 Admissions under paragraph 8.03 (2) (h)
8.10 Matter not to be taken into account in determining sentence
8.11 Refund of infringement notice penalty if notice withdrawn
8.12 Evidence for hearing
8.13 Payment of penalty by cheque
8.14 Infringement notice not compulsory, etc
9.01 Decisions reviewable by Secretary
9.02 Review by Secretary
9.03 Secretary to obtain advice
9.04 Interpretation
9.05 Statement to accompany notification of reviewable decisions
9.06 AAT review of decisions
10.01 Airport environment officers
10.02 Airport environment officer’s records
10.03 Oversight of airport environment officer
10.04 Giving notices, directions, etc
10.05 Immunity from certain liability
10.06 Confidential information in hands of airport environment officer
10.07 Delegation
11.01 Commenced actions that are otherwise lawful
- Schedule 1 Air pollution — accepted limits
- Part 1 Air pollutants emitted from a stationary source
- Part 2 Ambient air quality objectives
- Schedule 2 Water pollution — accepted limits
- Schedule 3 Soil pollution — accepted limits
- Schedule 4 Excessive noise — guidelines
- Part 1 Introductory
- Part 2 Sensitive receptors
- Part 3 Commercial receptors
- Part 4 Measuring noise
- Notes to the REF citation \* MERGEFORMAT Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 1997

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Legislation text

Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 1997
Citation changes
Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 1997
22 Dec 1998
Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations
19 Feb 1997 - 18 Feb 1997