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studies, reviews and monitoring, as affected by subregulation 5.02B(5) of the Airports Regulations 1997; and
 (b) under the direction of a person having the qualifications addressed under paragraph 5.02B(5)(d) of the Airports Regulations 1997; and
 (c) if it involves testing—in accordance with regulation 1.08; and
 (d) in a way that is not inconsistent with:
 (i) any international convention, treaty or agreement, relating to environment protection, to which Australia is a party; or
 (ii) a provision of national environment protection measures made under section 14 of the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994.
 (3) The airport‑lessee company must keep a written record of the environmental condition of the airport and its environmental management generally (the 'environmental site register'), including:
 (a) the results of monitoring, under this Division; and
 (b) any information or report received under subregulation 6.01(4), paragraph 6.05(1)(b) or subregulation 6.08(4); and
 (c) details of any remedial plan under regulation 6.14 for an area of the airport, and of any reports under regulation 6.15 in relation to a plan; and
 (d) details of the nature, date and place of any occurrence of environmental significance (detrimental or beneficial) at the airport.
Note 1: For meaning of writing, see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 25.
Note 2: Paragraph 4.05(2)(c) requires a report of a cultural discovery to be entered in the environment site register.
 (5) An airport‑lessee company that fails to comply with this regulation commits an offence.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (6) An offence against subregulation (5) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

6.03  Annual report
 (1) The airport‑lessee company for an airport must give the Secretary a report for each financial year, or another reporting period that the Secretary determines, containing:
 (a) information, mentioned in subregulation 6.02(3), added to the environmental site register for the preceding year; and
 (b) details of the company's performance in achieving the policies and targets of the environment strategy and, in particular, of the company's progressive management of enduring environmental pollution problems at the airport; and
 (c) a report of incidents of pollution and other contraventions of the regulations that have occurred during the year to which the report applies.
 (1A) Paragraph (1)(b) applies in relation to Sydney West Airport and a report for a financial year, or other reporting period, ending before the first final master plan is in force for that airport as if:
 (a) the words "achieving the policies and targets of the environment strategy" were omitted from that paragraph; and
 (b) the words "complying with the conditions in an airport plan for the airport" were substituted.
 (2) The airport‑lessee company must give its report for a reporting period to the