Statutory Rules
1978 No. 140
REGULATION UNDER THE AIR NAVIGATION ACT 1920*
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 this fourteenth day of July 1978.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
PETER NIXON
Minister of State for Transport
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AMENDMENT OF THE AIR NAVIGATION REGULATIONS†
Location of marks
Regulation 23 of the Air Navigation Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (5) and (6) and substituting the following sub-regulations:
“ (5) The wing marks of a heavier-than-air aircraft—
(a) shall—
(i) be located on the lower surface of the port wing of the aircraft; or
(ii) extend across the lower surfaces of both of the wings of the aircraft; and
(b) if possible, shall be located equidistant from the leading and trailing edges of the wing or wings with the top of the letters comprising the marks towards the leading edge of the wing or wings.
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 July 1978.
† Statutory Rules 1947, No. 112 as amended by Statutory Rules 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; and 1977. No. 124.
“ (6) In sub-regulations (4) and (5), a reference to a wing, or to the wings, of an aircraft having more than one set of wings shall be read as a reference to a lower wing or the lower set of wings, as the case requires.”.