Civil Aviation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 3311

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Civil Aviation 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 Civil Aviation Act 1988.

Dated 11 October 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Bob Collins.

Minister of State for Shipping and

Aviation Support

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After Regulation 256 of the Civil Aviation Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Carriage of animals

“256a. (1) Subject to this regulation, the operator of an aircraft must not permit a live animal to be in the aircraft unless the animal is in a container and is carried in accordance with this regulation.

“(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a dog accompanying a visually impaired or hearing impaired person as a guide or an assistant if the dog is:

(a) carried in the passenger cabin of the aircraft; and

(b) placed on a moisture-absorbent mat as near to the person as practicable; and

(c) restrained in a way that will prevent the dog from moving from the mat.

 

(S.R. 153/90)—Cat No. 14/14.8.90

 

“(3) More than one animal must not be kept in the same container if doing so would be likely to affect adversely the safety of the aircraft.

“(4) A container must be so constructed that:

(a) an animal kept in the container cannot escape from the container; and

(b) any water or excreta in the container is not likely to escape from the container in normal flying conditions; and

(c) the container will withstand being damaged in a way that may allow an animal, or water or excreta, in the container to escape.

“(5) Except with the written permission of the Authority, a container in which an animal is kept must not be in the passenger cabin of an aircraft.

“(6) If:

(a) an animal is carried in an aircraft in a container; and

(b) if the animal is not restrained it could move around inside the container in a way that may alter the distribution of the load of the aircraft; and

(c) the safety of the aircraft may be affected adversely by that movement;

the animal must be restrained in the container to prevent that movement.

“(7) The means of restraint must be strong enough to withstand being damaged in a way that may allow the animal to escape.

“(8) An animal must not be carried on an aircraft if carrying the animal would be likely to affect a person on the aircraft in a way that may affect adversely the safety of the aircraft.

“(9) In this regulation, ‘animal’ means any member of the animal kingdom other than man.”.

 

NOTES

• 1.

   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 October 1990.

  2. Statutory Rules 1988 No. 158 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1990 No. 100 and see also Statutory Rules 1990 Nos.100, 215, 216, 258 and 260, 289 and 310.

 

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