Federal Court of Australia
CATCHWORDS ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - judicial review - application for stay of administrative decisions pending final hearing - principal application made by local government authorities the residents of whose areas live in flight paths to be followed by aircraft arriving at and leaving aerodrome in the event that decisions valid - decision of Minister for Environment pursuant to Administrative Procedures to exempt Minister for Transport from need to comply with those procedures before directing a change in the degree of usage of runways at aerodrome - Administrative Procedures require environmental investigations and environmental impact statements - whether decision of Minister for Environment to grant exemption manifestly unreasonable - whether Minister took into account irrelevant considerations or omitted from account relevant considerations - considerations of principles according to which Court exercises discretion in determining whether or not to grant stay - consideration of question whether councils had standing to sue - whether applicants had established prima facie case in relation both to manifest unreasonbleness and taking into account of irrelevant considerations or the omission from account of relevant considerations.
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977, ss.3, 5, 6, 15 Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, ss.5, 6 Administrative Procedures made pursuant to Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, para. 11 and also paras 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 Air Services Act 1995, s.16 Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), s.8
Botany Bay City Council & Ors v Minister of State for Transport and Regional Development & Ors No. NG251 of 1996
CORAM: SHEPPARD J PLACE: SYDNEY DATE: 1 APRIL 1996
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA) ) NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY) No. NG251 of 1996 ) GENERAL DIVISION ) BETWEEN: BOTANY BAY CITY COUNCIL ROCKDALE CITY COUNCIL RANDWICK CITY COUNCIL HURSTVILLE CITY COUNCIL Applicants AND: MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT First Respondent MINISTER FOR STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Second Respondent AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA Third Respondent MINUTES OF ORDER
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate