Bill
Airports Amendment Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-09-21. Infrastructure and Transport portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure and Transport
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-12-01
- second reading — 2016-12-01
- second reading — 2018-06-27
- second reading — 2018-06-28
- second reading — 2018-08-13
- second reading — 2018-08-13
- committee — 2018-08-13
- third reading — 2018-08-13
- introduced — 2018-08-15
- second reading — 2018-08-15
- second reading — 2018-09-12
- second reading — 2018-09-12
- third reading — 2018-09-12
- passed — 2018-09-12
- royal assent — 2018-09-21
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2016-12-01.
The bill would streamline planning rules at federally leased airports by making master plans and major development plans more flexible and efficient.
It would change the submission cycle for master plans, raise the cost threshold that triggers a major development plan, and give the minister new powers to adjust that threshold and extend completion deadlines.
The monetary trigger for major development plans would increase from $20 million to $25 million, and the minister could update it every three years using a legislative instrument.
- Introduces an 8-year master plan cycle for 15 airports while keeping the current 5-year cycle for 5 airports.
- Requires each new master plan to include an Australian Noise Exposure Forecast.
- Raises the major development plan monetary trigger from $20 million to $25 million.
- Allows the minister to issue legislative instruments to increase the monetary trigger every three years and to specify which costs count toward the construction cost.
- Sets a 15-business-day deadline for the minister to decide on applications for reduced consultation periods, with deemed refusal if no decision is made.
- Lets the minister extend the substantial completion period for approved major development plans more than once, and lets airport-lessee companies notify the minister if an approved plan cannot proceed due to exceptional circumstances.
Federally leased airports (excluding Mount Isa and Tennant Creek), their airport-lessee companies, and the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport.
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