Airports Act 1996: Defined terms for airport, airport lease, airport-lessee company and airport site are all imported from that Act (section 4). The grant of airport leases under sections 21 and 22 must also comply with Part 2 of the Airports Act 1996 (noted in sections 21 and 22). The Airports Act 1996 establishes the ongoing regulatory regime; the Transitional Act is the one-time enabling mechanism.
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and Income Tax Assessment Act 1936: Part 8, Division 3 (sections 48A–55) modifies the application of these Acts to transferred assets. Finance Minister determinations under sections 49B, 50B, 51B and 52A shape the cost, depreciation and capital gains treatment of airport assets. Section 54A deems the airport-lessee company to be the owner of capital works for Division 43 ITAA 1997 purposes. Section 55 allows further modification by regulation.
Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986: Section 15 provides that when FAC land vests in the Commonwealth under Part 2, the airport ceases to be a "Federal airport" or "Federal airport development site" within the meaning of the FAC Act 1986. This extinguishes the FAC's statutory jurisdiction over those airports.
Lands Acquisition Act 1989: Expressly excluded from applying to transactions done under Part 2 (section 18) and Part 3 (section 28). This removes the normal acquisition procedures that would otherwise apply to Commonwealth land dealings.
Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983: Continued application to pre-sale-time conduct by airport-lessee companies under section 80 (Part 11).
Archives Act 1983: Section 91 requires Archives Act compliance before Commonwealth records are transferred to airport-lessee companies; Australian Archives permission is needed.
Acts Interpretation Act 1901: Section 33(3) of that Act allows pre-grant declarations to be varied or revoked before the specified day (section 88 of this Act).
Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act and related instruments: Schedule 1 preserves long service leave entitlements for transferred employees and treats the airport-lessee company as an approving authority.
Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973: Schedule 2 preserves deferred benefit status and periods of eligible employment for former FAC employees with DFRDB entitlements.
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988: Schedule 3 rules deal with continuing application to transferred employees and pre-transfer workplace injury claims.
Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 and Workplace Relations Act 1996: Section 59(4) references pre-reform certified agreements, individual transitional employment agreements, AWAs and enterprise flexibility agreements as the source of terms and conditions to be carried across to the airport-lessee company.
Constitution, section 51(xxxi): The just terms compensation safety net in section 90 is a direct response to the constitutional requirement that acquisitions of property by Commonwealth must be on just terms.
Constitution, section 55: Section 92 ensures the Act is not characterised as a taxation law.