Air Navigation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 3141

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 Regulation under the Air Navigation Act 1920.

Dated 26 October 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

(sgd) K. C. Beazley

Minister of State for Aviation

 

After regulation 316 of the Air Navigation Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Use of rockets

“316a. (1) A person shall not, except with the permission of the Secretary and in accordance with any specified conditions to which the permission is subject—

(a) launch a rocket into the air, or cause a rocket to be so launched, within 5 kilometres of an aerodrome; or

(b) cause a rocket to be propelled—

(i) at any height over ground or water that is is not more than 5 kilometres from an aerodrome; or

(ii) at a height exceeding 300 feet over ground or water that is more than 5 kilometres from an aerodrome.

“(2) In considering whether to give permission for the purposes of sub-regulation (1) or to give that permission subject to conditions, the Secretary shall have regard only to the safety of air navigation.

 

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“(3) Permission given for the purposes of sub-regulation (1) may be given—

(a) to a specified person or a person included in a specified class of persons or to persons generally; or

(b) in respect of a specified rocket or a rocket included in a specified class of rockets.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 November 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1947 No. 112 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1984 No. 208 and see also Statutory Rules 1984 No. 208.

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