What are the consequences of the Public Works and Airport Authorities Acts?
The Crown disposal process must be undertaken in accord with one of these two acts. The AAA allows the Airport to be placed into a company and for the Crown to sell the shares of that company. The PWA sets out a required disposal sequence that must be followed. The first step in this sequence is for Government and the local council (ie. Waitakere City Council) to determine if the military airport should be re-used as a public work. Waitakere City Council has indicated that it intends to exercise its rights under the PWA (if this disposal route is followed) to require reuse of the military airport as a civil airport. In effect the law means that there are only two potential uses of the Airport. Some, or all of the Airport, may be re-used by Government for some other public work. Alternatively the Airport, or part of it, may be reused as a civil airport.
