Part Part 1 - Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 2026 - Preliminary

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Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Objects

5 Definitions

6 Application of definitions in Airports Regulations 2024

7 Limited application to aircraft activities

8 Airports to which this instrument applies

9 Prescribed airports to which Division 3 of Part 6 of the Act applies

10 Operation of State laws

11 References to Australian Standards

12 Undertakings at airports and operators of undertakings

13 Testing

14 Minister may determine investigation levels etc.

Part 2—Pollution and noise

Division 1—Pollution

15 Air pollution

16 Water pollution

17 Soil pollution

Division 2—Offensive noise

18 Offensive noise

Part 3—Duties of operators of undertakings at airports

19 Purpose

Division 2—Duties to prevent or minimise pollution

20 General duty to avoid polluting

21 Assumed compliance with general duty

22 Duty in relation to use of pollution control equipment

Division 3—Duties to preserve certain biota, habitats, sites and species etc.

23 General duty to preserve certain biota, habitats, sites and species etc.

24 Duty to give notice of discovery of certain objects, species or ecological communities at certain sites at airport

Division 4—Duties to prevent or minimise offensive noise

25 General duty to prevent or minimise offensive noise

26 Assumed compliance with general duty

27 Duty in relation to noisy operating equipment

28 Duty in relation to noise control equipment

Part 4—Local standards and individual authorisations

Division 1—Purposes of this Part

29 Purposes of this Part

Division 2—Local standards

30 Airport‑lessee company may prepare draft local standard

31 Request for Minister to make local standard

32 Ministerial decision whether to make local standard

33 Minister may request more material for making decision

34 How Minister makes a local standard

35 Notification of Minister’s decision

36 Commencement and duration of local standard

37 Minister may vary or revoke local standard on request or on own initiative

38 Effect of local standard, variation or revocation