DSAPT Amendment – General Items and Part 1 Preliminary

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Various parts within application tables.

Definition for ‘airports that do not accept regular public transport services’ removed from applicable tables and inserted instead into the definitions section.

No effect to the application.

Schedule 1-Part 1 (Preliminary) Amendments

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1.6 Incorporation of Australian Standards, Australian/New Zealand Standards and Australian Design Rules

Standards retained:

• AS 1428.2 (1992)

Older standards repealed (removed):

• AS 1428.1 (2001)
• AS 1428.1 Supplement 1 (1993)
• AS 1428.4 (1992)
• AS 1735.12 (1999)
• AS 2899.1 (1986)
• AS 3856.1 (1998)
• Australian Design Rule 58 No 2 of 1992

Modern standards added:

• AS 1428.1 (2009)
• AS 1428.1 (2021)
• AS/NZS 1428.4.1 (2009)
• AS 1428.4.2 (2018)
• AS 1428.5 (2021)
• AS 1735.12 (2020)
• AS 1744 (2015)
• AS 2890.5 (2020)
• AS/NZS 2890.6 (2009)
• AS 3856.1 (2021)
• AS3962 (2020)
• AS EN 301 549 (2020)
• AS/NSZ ISO 10865.1 (2015)
• Australian Design Rule 58/00 otherwise known as Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule 58/00 – Requirements for Omnibuses Designed for Hire and Reward) 2006

Older standards repealed, current standards added, additional instruments added.

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1.7 Applicability of Standards

Title and clause repealed and substituted.

No application affect – Title and clause simplified.

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1.8 – 1.11 Meaning of important terms

Definitions amended (repealed, added, amended).

Refers definitions for assistance animal, Commission, disability & disability discrimination to the DDA, adds/amends various definitions for clarity.

Note: Definition for ‘Airport that does not accept regular public transport services’ repealed and amended in this section – the older definition was referenced from a now repealed piece of legislation, and the reference has been removed from application tables, without any effect to the application.

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1.12 Conveyance

Added ‘charter flights, joy flights & recreational flights’ to the list of conveyances to be excluded as a conveyance.

To clarify the intent that these services are not to be considered regular public transport services under the DSAPT.

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1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.17, 1.19 & 1.21

Definitions repealed & consolidated into section 1.8

Includes new and amended definitions.

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1.22 Provider

Amended definition

Definition expanded to include conveyances and premises.

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1.23 Public transport service

Added definition for ‘public transport service’.

Clarifies what a public transport service does not include.

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1.24 Small aircraft

Definition repealed & consolidated into section 1.8.

Minor amendment - No effect