Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1969 (Cth)

Air Navigation (Charges)

No. 75 of 1969

An Act relating to Charges in respect of Commonwealth Air Navigation Facilities and Services.

[Assented to 26 September 1969]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1969.

(2.) The Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952–1968 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952–1969.

 

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and seventy.

First Schedule.

3.—(1.) The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting sub-paragraph (1.) of paragraph 7 and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraphs:—

“(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-paragraph, the unit charge for an aircraft is an amount calculated in accordance with the following table:—

Column 1	Column 2
Weight of aircraft, in pounds	Amount, in cents, for each 1,000 pounds, or part of 1,000 pounds, of weight of aircraft
Not more than 25,000............................................................	8.03
More than 25,000 but not more than 50,000............................	12.50
More than 50,000 but not more than 100,000..........................	16.08
More than 100,000 but not more than 200,000........................	18.75
More than 200,000................................................................	20.57

“(1a.) Where—

(a) a charge in accordance with a Schedule to this Act is payable by the holder of an international airline licence; or

(b) a charge in accordance with this Schedule is payable in respect of a flight, take-off or landing made by an aircraft in the course of operations under an international airline licence conducted by a person other than the holder of the licence in pursuance of a contract or arrangement between the person and the holder of the licence,

the unit charge for the aircraft, for the purpose of calculating the amount of the charge so payable, is an amount calculated in accordance with the following table:—

Column 1	Column 2
Weight of aircraft, in pounds	Amount, in cents, for each 1,000 pounds, or part of 1,000 pounds, of weight of aircraft
Not more than 25,000............................................................	7.30
More than 25,000 but not more than 50,000............................	11.36
More than 50,000 but not more than 100,000..........................	14.62
More than 100,000 but not more than 200,000........................	17.05
More than 200,000................................................................	18.70”.

(b)by omitting from sub-paragraph (2.) of paragraph 7 the words “preceding sub-paragraph” and inserting in their stead the words “two preceding sub-paragraphs”; and

(c) by adding at the end of paragraph 7 the following sub-paragraph:—

“(4.) In this paragraph, ‘international airline licence’ means an airline licence with respect to an air service between a place in Australia and a place outside Australia.”.

 

(2.) The amendments of the Principal Act made by the last preceding sub-section—

(a) apply in relation to a charge payable—

(i) in respect of a flight between places in Australia that is completed on or after the date of commencement of this Act;

(ii) in respect of the landing or take-off of an aircraft on or after that date;

(iii) by the registered owner of an aircraft in respect of a period that commences on or after that date; and

(iv) by the owner of a foreign aircraft in respect of a week or a part of a week that commences on or after that date; and

(b)