Air Navigation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 1411

Air Navigation Regulations2 (Amendment)

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

Dated 18 June 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Morris

Minister of State for Aviation

Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Air Navigation Regulations.

Interpretation

2. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definitions of “the Department” and “the Minister”.

Privileges and limitations according to the category of licence held

3. Regulation 52 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-paragraph (8) (aa) (iii) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(iii) submitted to any relevant medical examination that, in the case of the person, is required by the Secretary under paragraph 57 (2) (a),”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (8) (aa) “period not exceeding nine hours” and substituting “further period, being a period not exceeding 9 hours”.

4. After regulation 120a of the Principal Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

(S.R. 9/84)—Cat. No.  10/28.5.1986

Discharge of firearms in or from an aircraft

“120b. A person, including a flight crew member, shall not, except with the permission in writing of the Secretary and in accordance with such conditions (if any) as are specified in the permission, discharge a firearm while on board an aircraft.”.

Picking up of persons or objects

5. Regulation 127 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting “objects” and substituting “persons or objects”.

Low flying

6. Regulation 133 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (3) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b) the aircraft is engaged in private operations or aerial work operations, being operations that require low flying, and the owner or operator of the aircraft has received from the Secretary either a general permit for all flights or a specific permit for the particular flight to be made at a lower height while engaged in such operations;”.

Interpretation

7. Regulation 147a of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting “210” and “21,000” and substituting “200” and “20,000” respectively.

V.F.R. flights at or above 5,000 feet

8. Regulation 150 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “210” and substituting “200”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “210” and substituting “200”.

Responsibility of pilot in command before flight

9. Regulation 225 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (h) “and charts” and substituting “, charts and other aeronautical information and instructions published in Aeronautical Information Publications that are”.

Carriage on wings, undercarriages, &c.

10. Regulation 243 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting “A person” and substituting “Except as provided by sub-regulation (2), a person”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

 “(2) A person may, with the permission of the Secretary given in respect of—

(a) a particular flight;

(b) flights of a particular kind; or

(c) flights included in a series of flights,

be carried, during a flight in respect of which the permission is given, on or in a part of a helicopter that is not designed for the accommodation of the crew or passengers, or on or in anything attached to a helicopter.

 “(3) The Secretary may, when granting a permission referred to in sub-regulation (2), specify conditions subject to which a person may be carried.”.

Entries relating to suspension and cancellations

11. Regulation 267 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) “under regulation 258” after “cancelled”.

Schedule of further amendments

12. The Principal Regulations are further amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Regulation 12

FURTHER AMENDMENTS

 

Provision amended	Amendment
Sub-regulation 5 (1) (definition of “constable”)	Omit “-1960”.
Sub-regulation 5 (1) (definition of “International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea”)
	Omit “-1968”.
	Sub-regulation 5(1) (definition of “the Act”)	Omit “-1960”.
Sub-regulation 7 (2)	Omit “Air”, substitute “Defence”.
Paragraph 77 (1) (d)	Omit “-1967”.
Sub-regulation 182 (3)	Omit “light”, substitute “lights”.
Sub-regulation 264 (7)	Omit “-1960”.
Paragraph 315aa (2) (a)	Omit “Transport”, substitute “Aviation”.
Sub-regulation 316 (3) (definition of “authorized person”)	Omit “Transport”, substitute “Aviation”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealthh of Australia Gazette on 26 June 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1947 No. 112 as amended by 1947 No. 162; 1948 No. 69; 1949 Nos. 6 and 70; 1950 No. 69; 1952 Nos. 30, 46 and 87; 1953 No. 44; 1954 Nos. 26, 32 and 119; 1955 No. 29; 1956 No. 16; 1957 No. 12; 1958 No. 77; 1960 Nos. 21, 96 and 99; 1961 No. 102; 1964 Nos. 61 and 128; 1965 No. 33; 1966 No. 5; 1967 No. 65; 1969 No. 4; 1970 Nos. 21 and 214; 1971 No. 31; 1972 No. 166; 1973 Nos. 182 and 247; 1974 Nos. 36, 54 and 96; 1975 No. 32; 1976 Nos. 67, 77, 111 and 124; 1977 No. 124; 1978 No. 140; 1980 Nos. 67, 106, 136, 187, 204, 247 and 269; 1981 Nos. 32, 77, 253 and 308; 1982 No. 270; 1983 Nos. 39, 149 and 202; 1984 Nos. 208 and 314; 1985 Nos. 203, 276, 300 and 329.

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