STATUTORY RULES.
1915. No. 113.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.
Aerial Navigation Regulations.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealthof
Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby
certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Defence
Act 1903-1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the
Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this seventh day of
July, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE.
Aerial Navigation Regulations.
Short
title.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Aerial Navigation Regulations
1915.
Registration
of aircraft.
2. Any person who at the commencement of these Regulations has in his
possession, or who, at any time after the commencement of these Regulations
becomes possessed of, an aircraft, shall, within thirty days after such commencement, or after so becoming
possessed, make application in accordance with Form J of the Schedule to the
Commandant of the Military District in which he resides for registration of the
aircraft.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for six months, or both.
District
Commandant may register aircraft.
3. Upon application being made to the Commandant of a Military District
for registration of an aircraft, the Commandant may register the aircraft, and
issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in accordance with Form 2
of the Schedule, or may refuse to register it without assigning any reason for
his refusal.
Deregistration
of aircrafts.
4.The Commandant of a Military District may at
any time, for reasons which appear to him sufficient, remove from the register
the registration of any air-craft, and thereupon the aircraft shall cease to be
a registered aircraft.
Unregistered
aircraft not to be navigated.
5. No person shall navigate, or allow to be navigated, an unregistered
aircraft.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for six months, or both.
C.7952.—Price 3d.
Places
over which aircraft shall not be navigated.
6. No person shall, except when actually employed in the service of the
Commonwealth, or except with the permission of the Minister, or the Commandant
of a Military District, navigate, or allow to be navigated, an aircraft over or
within ten miles of any fort, arsenal, dockyard, naval establishment, explosive
magazine, arms or ammunition factory, military encampment, ship of war, or farm
or establishment for horse-breeding, unless he is compelled so to navigate the
aircraft by stress of weather or other circumstances over which he had no
control, proof whereof shall lie upon him.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for six months, or both.
Minister
may prohibit aerial navigation.
7. (1) The Minister may at any time in the interests of the defence of the
Commonwealth prohibit, for such period as he thinks necessary, aerial
navigation over any part of the Commonwealth or the territorial waters of the
Commonwealth.
(2)
Any person who, without the permission of the Minister, proof whereof shall lie
upon him, navigates an aircraft over any part of the Commonwealth or the
territorial waters of the Commonwealth, aerial navigation over which has been
prohibited by the Minister under this Regulation, shall be guilty of an
offence.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for six months, or both;
Aircraft
from abroad.
8. No person shall, except with the permission in writing of the Minister
of Defence, and subject to such conditions as are imposed, navigate, or allow
to be navigated, an aircraft over any part of the Commonwealth from any place
outside the Commonwealth, or from any ship other than ships of the Royal Navy
or the Royal Australian Navy.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for six months, or both.
Certain
articles not to be carried in aircraft.
9. No person shall, unless authorized by the Minister, or the Commandant
of a Military District (proof whereof shall lie upon him), carry in an aircraft
over any part of the Commonwealth any explosives, firearms, photographic
apparatus, mails, or carrier or homing pigeons.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for six months, or both.
THE SCHEDULE.
FORM
1 (TO BE IN DUPLICATE).
Aerial
Navigation Regulation 1915.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF AN AIRCRAFT.
Particulars of Applicant.
Name.............................................................. |
Age................................................................. |
Address.......................................................... |
Occupation..................................................... |
Nationality and Place of Birth.......................... |
Applications will not be accepted from alien enemies or naturalized
subjects of enemy origin.
|
Whether in possession of a Pilot’s
Certificate
If so, give particulars.
|
Type
(Biplane, Monoplane, &c.)...................... |
Maker............................................................. |
Year
when Built.............................................. |
Approximate Number of Miles Machine has
flown........................................................
|
Number of Passengers who can be carried
besides Pilot
|
Engine—Type................................................. |
Engine—Horse-power..................................... |
Application for Registration of an Air-Craft.—continued.
Particulars of Applicant.—continued.
Engine—Normal
Speed................................... |
Engine—Petrol
Consumption, per hour............. |
Engine—Petrol
Capacity.................................. |
Engine—Name
of Maker................................. |
Engine—Year
when Built................................ |
State whether previously Registered................. |
If previously Registered, existing Certificate of Registration must
accompany the application.
|
Date
Signature
of Applicant.
FORM
2.
Aerial Navigation Regulations 1915.
CERTIFICATE
OF REGISTRATION OF AN AIR-CRAFT.
Particulars of Registered Owner.
Name.............................................................. |
Age................................................................. |
Address.......................................................... |
Occupation..................................................... |
Nationality
and Place of Birth.......................... |
Particulars of Pilot’s Certificate held by
Owner.......................................................
|
Certificate of Registration of an Air-Craft—continued.
Particulars of Air-Craft.
Type
(Biplane, Monoplane, &c.)...................... |
Maker............................................................. |
Year
when Built.............................................. |
Engine—Type................................................. |
Engine—Horse-Power..................................... |
Engine—Name
of Maker................................. |
Engine—Year
when Built................................ |
I
certify that an air-craft of which particulars are stated in this Certificate
has been registered in the name of the person above described.
Here insert:
|
“This air-craft
has not been registered previously”; or “This air-craft is the air-craft
registered on the day of 191 ,
by the Commandant of the Military District in the name of .”
|
Dated at
| this | day
of | 191 |
Commandant,
Military District.
Note.—This Certificate becomes
void in the event of the air-craft passing out of the possession of the
registered owner.
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J.
Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.