STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 162.
REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Air Navigation Act 1920-1936.
Dated this fourteenth day of August, 1940.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. FADDEN
Minister of State for Civil Aviation.
Amendment of The Air Navigation Regulations.†
Licensing of public transport aircraft.
Regulation 79 of the Air Navigation Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“(5.) In any proceedings for an offence against this regulation, it shall be prima facie evidence that an aircraft was used in the operation of a regular public transport service if it is proved—
(a) that an announcement was made by public notice, newspaper advertisement or broadcast statement, to the effort that it was proposed to operate a service for the carriage of persons or goods by air for hire or reward or to the like effect; and
(b) that the service was subsequently in operation on two or more occasions within any period of four weeks between any two places situated more than fifty miles apart, and the aircraft was used in that service”.
“(6.) For the purposes of this regulation, a public transport service shall be deemed to be a regular public transport service if it is operated on two or more occasions within any period of four weeks between any two places situated more than fifty miles apart.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th August, 1940.
† Statutory Rules 1937, No. 81, as amended by Statutory Rules 1938, No. 104; 1939, No. 2; and 1940, No. 25.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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