Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00957:front:0:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00957
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 5757–9080

officer
9.01 Decisions reviewable by Secretary
9.02 Review by Secretary
9.03 Secretary to obtain advice
Division 2—Review by Administrative Review Tribunal
9.04 Interpretation
9.05 Statement to accompany notification of reviewable decisions
9.06 Administrative Review Tribunal review of decisions
Part 10—Miscellaneous
10.01 Airport environment officers
10.02 Airport environment officer's records
10.03 Oversight of airport environment officer
10.04 Giving notices, directions, etc
10.05 Immunity from certain liability
10.06 Confidential information in hands of airport environment officer
10.07 Delegation
Part 11—Transitional
11.01 Commenced actions that are otherwise lawful
Schedule 1—Air pollution—accepted limits
Part 1—Air pollutants emitted from a stationary source
1.01 Definitions
1.02 Table 1—accepted limits of contamination
Part 2—Ambient air quality objectives
2.01 Ambient objectives
Schedule 2—Water pollution—accepted limits
1.01 Interpretation
1.02 Indicators of adverse chemical effect
1.03 Table—accepted limits of contamination
Schedule 3—Soil pollution—accepted limits
1.01 Table 1—areas of an airport generally
1.02 Table 2—areas of environmental significance
Schedule 4—Excessive noise—guidelines
Part 1—Introductory
1.01 Purpose of Schedule
1.02 Interpretation
Part 2—Sensitive receptors
2.01 Application
2.02 Noise from construction, etc
2.03 Noise from road traffic
2.04 Noise from rail traffic
2.05 Noise from ground‑based aircraft operations
2.06 Noise from other airport operations
Part 3—Commercial receptors
3.01 Application
3.02 Noise from any source
Part 4—Measuring noise
4.01 Procedures and standards
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history

Part 1—Preliminary

1.01  Name of regulations
  These Regulations are the Airports (Environment Protection) Regulations 1997.

1.02  Objects
  The objects of these Regulations are:
 (a) to establish, in conjunction with national environment protection measures made under section 14 of the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994, a Commonwealth system of regulation of, and accountability for, activities at airports that generate, or have potential to generate:
 (i) pollution; or
 (ii) excessive noise; and
 (b) to promote improving environmental management practices for activities carried out at airport sites.

1.03  Limited application to aircraft activities
  These Regulations do not apply to:
 (a) pollution generated by an aircraft; or
 (b) noise generated by an aircraft in flight or when landing, taking off or taxiing at an airport.
Note: In relation to engine emissions and noise emissions by aircraft, see the Air Navigation (Aircraft Engine Emissions) Regulations and the Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Regulations 2018.

1.03A  Airports to which Division 3 of Part 6 of the Act applies
  For paragraph 131A(1)(b) of the Act, the following airports are specified:
 (a) Archerfield Airport;
 (aa) Bankstown Airport;
 (ab) Camden Airport;
 (b) Essendon Fields Airport;
 (c) Jandakot Airport;
 (d) Moorabbin Airport;
 (e) Parafield Airport.

1.04  Effect on other laws
 (1) To the extent that these Regulations make provision about a matter mentioned in paragraph 132(1)(a) or (e), or 133(1)(a) or (e), of the Act, a State law making