Airports Act 1996

This section applies if a prescribed provision (the declaration provision) of regulations made under this Act declares a place (to the extent that it is a Commonwealth place) to be an airport site.

A regulation may amend the declaration provision by inserting a provision that specifies a place even if, at the time the amending regulation commences, a part of the place is not a Commonwealth place.

The part of the place becomes part of the airport site when the part of the place becomes a Commonwealth place, so long as the place satisfies paragraph (c) of the definition of airport site in subsection 5(1).

If the declaration provision refers to a place made up of the land described in a prescribed provision (the land description provision) of regulations made under this Act, a regulation may amend the land description provision by inserting a description of land even if, at the time the amending regulation commences, the land is not a Commonwealth place.

The land becomes part of the airport site when the land becomes a Commonwealth place, so long as the place satisfies paragraph (c) of the definition of airport site in subsection 5(1).

This section is enacted for the avoidance of doubt.