Air Navigation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 65.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR NAVIGATION ACT 1920-1936.*

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Navigation Act 1920-1936.

Dated this third day of April, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD

Minister of State for Civil Aviation.

 

Amendments of the Air Navigation Regulations. 

Assessors and officers.

1.Regulation 98 of the Air Navigation Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

2.Regulation 101 of the Air Navigation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Reference of certain accidents and forced landings to courts of inquiry.

“101. Where any accident or forced landing to which the last preceding regulation applies causes loss of life or serious injury, the Minister shall refer that accident or forced landing to a Court for inquiry unless, after consideration of the report on any investigation into the accident or forced landing conducted in pursuance of regulation 123a of these Regulations, he is of the opinion that that report adequately covers the matter and that no useful purpose would be served by a further inquiry by a Court.”

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* Notified in the Commonwealth, Gazette on 4th April, 1946.

  Statutory Rules 1937, No. 81, as amended by Statutory Rules 1938, No. 104; 1939, Nos. 2 and 122; 1940, Nos. 25, 155 and 162; 1941, No. 16, and 1946, No. 51.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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