Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AIRPORTS ACT 1996 - SECT 251B

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if a prescribed provision (the declaration provision ) of regulations made under this Act declares a place   (to the extent that it is a Commonwealth place) to be an airport site.

Part of place

  (2)   A regulation may amend the declaration provision by inserting a provision that specifies a place even if, at the time the amending regulation commences, a part of the place is not a Commonwealth place.

  (3)   The part of the place becomes part of the airport site when the part of the place becomes a Commonwealth place, so long as the place satisfies paragraph   (c) of the definition of airport site in subsection   5(1).

  (4)   If the declaration provision refers to a place made up of the land described in a prescribed provision (the land description provision ) of regulations made under this Act, a regulation may amend the land description provision by inserting a description of land even if, at the time the amending regulation commences, the land is not a Commonwealth place.

  (5)   The land becomes part of the airport site when the land becomes a Commonwealth place, so long as the place satisfies paragraph   (c) of the definition of airport site in subsection   5(1).

Avoidance of doubt

  (7)   This section is enacted for the avoidance of doubt.