Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Amendment (Delegations) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 07 March 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Michael McCormack

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Regulations 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Amendment (Delegations) Regulations 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Air Navigation Act 1920.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Regulations 2018

1  After subsection 24(1)

Insert:

 (1A) Before delegating a power under subsection (1) to an officer or employee other than an SES employee, or acting SES employee, the Secretary must be satisfied that the officer or employee has appropriate qualifications or expertise to exercise the power.

2  Part 5 (after the heading)

Insert:

Division 1—Provisions relating to the Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Regulations 1984

3  Section 25

Omit “Part”, substitute “Division”.

4  After section 29

Insert:

Division 2—Provisions relating to the Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Amendment (Delegations) Regulations 2019

30  Delegations

  The amendment of section 24 made by the Air Navigation (Aircraft Noise) Amendment (Delegations) Regulations 2019 applies to a delegation made by the Secretary on or after the commencement of this section.