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Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 2026
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50 Holders of certain authorisations must report annually to airport environment officer
(2 The holder of an authorisation, in relation to an airport, that is granted for a period longer than one year must:
(a) give an airport environment officer; and
(b) if the holder is not the airport‑lessee company for the airport—give the airport‑lessee company for the airport;
a report, for each year that the authorisation is in force, setting out:
(c) details of the holder’s performance in giving effect to the holder’s environment management plan mentioned in subsection 41(3); and
(d) details of progress (if any) made, in accordance with the authorisation, in reducing the generation of pollution or noise at the airport in excess of the investigation level for the airport:
(i) set out in the Schedules; or
(ii) set out in a relevant local standard that applies in substitution for the investigation levels in the Schedules; and
(e) any failure by the holder to comply with the terms and conditions (if any) of the authorisation.
(3) The holder of an authorisation must give the report no later than 60 days after the end of each year that the authorisation is in force.
Note: A person that contravenes subsection (2) or (3) of this section commits an offence against subsection 132(2) of the Act.
(4) For the purposes of subsection 132(2) of the Act, the maximum number of penalty units for a contravention of subsection (2) or (3) of this section is declared to be 50.