Air Navigation (Gold Coast Airport Curfew) Amendment (Technical Measures) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 19 September 2019

David Hurley

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 (Gold Coast Airport Curfew) Regulations 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Air Navigation (Gold Coast Airport Curfew) Amendment (Technical Measures) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Gold Coast Airport Curfew) Regulations 2018

1  Section 5

Insert:

helicopter has the same meaning as in the Annex.

2  Section 5 (definition of maximum take‑off weight)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

maximum take‑off weight, of an aircraft, means the weight, or the greatest of the weights, set out as a maximum take‑off weight for the aircraft in the aircraft’s certificate of airworthiness (within the meaning of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988) or flight manual (within the meaning of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998).

3  Subsection 9(4)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

 (4) Subsection (1) permits the movement of an aircraft only as follows:

 (a) unless paragraph (b) applies—the aircraft is permitted to take off or land between 11 pm and 11.45 pm;

 (b) on a day during a summer time period for New South Wales under the Standard Time Act 1987 (NSW) as that Act is in force at the time this subsection commences—the aircraft is permitted to land between 11 pm and 11.30 pm.

4  At the end of section 15

Add:

 (3) To avoid doubt, this section does not apply to helicopters.