{"id":"australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990","name":"Australian Airlines (Intrastate Services) Act 1990","slug":"australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"vic","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":173257,"registerId":"vic-australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Australian Airlines (Intrastate Services) Act 1990","content":"Version No. 003\n\n**Australian Airlines (Intrastate Services) Act 1990**\n\n**No. 15 of 1990**\n\nVersion as at  \n9 August 2012\n\n**table of provisions**\n\n*Section Page*\n\n1 Purposes 1\n\n2 Commencement 1\n\n3 Adoption of section 54 of the Commonwealth Act 1\n\n4 Repeal of **Air Navigation Act 1958** 1\n\nENDNOTES 2\n\n1. General Information 2\n\n2. Table of Amendments 3\n\n3. Explanatory Details 4\n\n**Version No.** **003**\n\n**Australian Airlines (Intrastate Services) Act 1990**\n\n**No. 15 of 1990**\n\nVersion as at  \n9 August 2012\n\n**The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:**\n\n\t1 Purposes\n\nThe purposes of this Act are—\n\n(a) to enable Australian Airlines Limited and its subsidiaries to operate air services within Victoria; and\n\n(b) to repeal the **Air Navigation Act 1958**.\n\n\t2 Commencement\n\nThis Act comes into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n\n\t3 Adoption of section 54 of the Commonwealth Act\n\nSection 54 of the Australian Airlines (Conversion to Public Company) Act 1988 of the Commonwealth is adopted.\n\n\t4 Repeal of Air Navigation Act 1958\n\nNo. 6197.\n\nThe **Air Navigation Act 1958** is **repealed**.\n\n\n\nENDNOTES\n\nEndnotes\n\n1. General Information\n\n\n*Minister's second reading speech—*\n\n*Legislative Assembly: 29 March 1990*\n\n*Legislative Council: 3 May 1990*\n\nThe long title for the Bill for this Act was \"A Bill to enable Australian Airlines Limited to operate air services within Victoria, to repeal the **Air Navigation Act 1958** and for other purposes.\".\n\nThe **Australian Airlines (Intrastate Services) Act 1990** was assented to on 22 May 1990 and came into operation on 22 May 1990.\n\n1. Table of Amendments\n\n\nEndnotes\n\nThere are no amendments made to the **Australian Airlines (Intrastate Services) Act 1990** by Acts and subordinate instruments.\n\n1. Explanatory Details\n\n\nEndnotes\n\nNo entries at date of publication.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the limited text available, there is no evidence the scope changed from its original intent. The Act appears to have been enacted with a narrow, specific purpose — granting Australian Airlines authority for intrastate services in Victoria — and remained confined to that purpose until the airline's demise. No amendments suggesting scope expansion or contraction are visible in the provided text."},"complexity_factors":["Involves constitutional division of powers between state and federal governments regarding aviation regulation","Requires understanding of the historical context of government-owned airline structures in Australia","The provided legislative text is extremely fragmented and repetitive, making full analysis impossible — key operative provisions are not visible","Intersection of state and Commonwealth regulatory frameworks for aviation","Historical legislation with uncertain current practical application"],"plain_english_summary":"This 1990 Victorian Act granted Australian Airlines statutory authority to operate flights that begin and end within Victoria, resolving a constitutional grey area between Commonwealth control of interstate/international aviation and state regulation of intrastate services. It is now mainly of historical interest—Australian Airlines merged into Qantas in 1992 and the Act has no practical effect on contemporary businesses or individuals."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose: enabling Australian Airlines to operate intrastate services in Victoria and repealing the Air Navigation Act 1958. No amendments have been made since enactment, and the scope has not expanded beyond these two specific objectives."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 operative sections","No defined terms section","No conditional logic or exceptions","Single cross-reference to a specific section of a Commonwealth Act","Straightforward repeal of one previous Act","Total length is approximately one page of substantive content"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short Victorian law from 1990 that did two things:\n\n**1. Let Australian Airlines fly within Victoria**\nBefore this Act, Australian Airlines (a government-owned airline at the time) was restricted in operating flights that only travelled within Victoria (called \"intrastate\" services — flights that don't cross state borders). This law removed that restriction so Australian Airlines and its subsidiary companies could run domestic flights entirely within Victoria, competing with other airlines.\n\n**2. Repealed old legislation**\nIt abolished the **Air Navigation Act 1958**, an older Victorian law that had regulated aviation in the state.\n\n**Why it mattered:**\nThis was part of broader airline deregulation in Australia during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The federal government had already passed laws converting Australian Airlines into a public company (the **Australian Airlines (Conversion to Public Company) Act 1988**). This Victorian law piggybacked on that federal law by specifically adopting one of its sections (section 54) to ensure the airline could operate freely within Victoria's borders without needing separate state permission for each route.\n\nThe Act is now largely historical — Australian Airlines was later merged into Qantas in 1992, and aviation is now predominantly regulated by federal (Commonwealth) law rather than state laws."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act's scope matches its original stated purposes: to enable Australian Airlines Limited and its subsidiaries to operate intrastate services in Victoria and to repeal the Air Navigation Act 1958 (s1, s4). Parliamentary records show no subsequent amendments to alter that scope (Endnotes: Table of Amendments). The operative change is achieved by adopting a Commonwealth provision (s3), but the substantive scope has not been expanded or reduced since enactment."},"complexity_factors":["Very short statute (4 sections) and narrow subject-matter reduces inherent complexity (s1–s4).","Adoption of an external Commonwealth provision (section 54 of the Australian Airlines (Conversion to Public Company) Act 1988) creates cross-jurisdictional interpretive dependency and requires reading-in of another Act to understand effect (s3).","Full repeal of the Air Navigation Act 1958 removes an entire regulatory framework without transitional or savings provisions in this Act, creating implementation and legal-gap risk (s4).","Immediate commencement on assent means effect is instantaneous, increasing short-term administrative requirements (s2).","Targeted beneficiary language (enables Australian Airlines Limited and subsidiaries) narrows scope but concentrates legal benefit on particular entities (s1(a)).","Lack of procedural or enforcement detail in the Act transfers practical rulemaking and regulatory detail to other instruments or bodies, increasing reliance on external sources for compliance guidance."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act allows Australian Airlines Limited and its subsidiaries to run air services entirely within Victoria by adopting section 54 of a Commonwealth Act and repealing the state's Air Navigation Act 1958 (s1, s3, s4). It changes the legal basis for intrastate aviation in Victoria, shifting reliance onto a Commonwealth provision and removing the older state air navigation statute, which affects who decides the operative rules for those services."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990","history":"/api/acts/australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990/history","analysis":"/api/acts/australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/australian-airlines-intrastate-services-act-1990/documents"}}