Air Navigation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 3001

 

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 15 November 1985.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Morris

Minister of State for Aviation

 

Interpretation

1. Regulation 5 of the Air Navigation Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “aircraft component” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘aircraft component’ means—

(a) any part or equipment for an aircraft that, when fitted to, or provided in an aircraft may, if it is not sound or functioning correctly, affect the safety of the aircraft, its occupants or its cargo or cause the aircraft to become a danger to person or property; or

(b) flotation equipment, evacuation equipment, ration packs, portable breathing apparatus, fire-fighting equipment, or any other equipment or apparatus, fitted to, or provided in, an aircraft for use in an emergency,

but does not include any part, equipment or apparatus for an aircraft in respect of which a direction is in force under sub-regulation (1a);”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (1) the following sub-regulation:

“(1a) The Secretary may direct that any part, equipment or apparatus for an aircraft shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed not to be an aircraft component.”.

 

(S.R. 220/84)—Cat. No.  11/10.7.1985

 

Urgency signals

2. Regulation 178 of the Air Navigation Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “three repetitions of the word PAN” and substituting “3 repetitions of the words PAN, PAN”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 November 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1947 No. 112 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1985 No. 203 and see also Statutory Rules 1985 No. 203 and 276.

 

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