STATUTORY RULES
1969 No.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR NAVIGATION ACT 1920-1966.*
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 1920-1966.
Dated this twenty-third day of January, 1969.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Civil Aviation.
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Amendment of the Air Navigation Regulations †
Institution of proceedings.
Regulation 317 of the Air Navigation Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (2.) the following sub-regulations:—
“(2a.) The fact that a consent has not been given under either of the last two preceding sub-regulations does not prevent—
(a) the charging of a person with an offence;
(b) the arrest of a person for an offence or the issue and execution of a warrant for such an arrest; or
(c) the remanding in custody or on bail of a person charged with an offence,
but no further step in proceedings of a kind referred to in either of the last two preceding sub-regulations shall be taken in relation to the offence until a consent in accordance with that sub-regulation has been obtained.
“(2b.) Nothing in the last preceding sub-regulation prevents the discharging of the accused if proceedings are not continued within a reasonable time.”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “the last preceding sub-regulation” and inserting in their stead the words “sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.
† 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; and 1966, No. 5; and 1967, No. 65.
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