1Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952

AIR NAVIGATION (CHARGES).

No. 101 of 1952.

An Act relating to Charges in respect of Commonwealth Air Navigation Facilities and Services.

[Assented to 18th November, 1952.]

[Date of commencement, 16th December, 1952.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952.

Definition.

2. In this Act, “Australia” includes all the Territories of the Commonwealth.

Application.

3. This Act applies throughout Australia.

Crown to be bound.

4. This Act binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth or of a State.

Air navigation charges.

5. Charges are payable, in accordance with the Schedules to this Act, in respect of the use by aircraft of aerodromes, air route and airway facilities, meteorological services and search and rescue services maintained, operated or provided by the Commonwealth.

Regulations.

6. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular for amending the Schedules to this Act.

THE SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE. Section. 5.

1.—(1.) Charges are payable, in accordance with this Schedule, by the holders of airline licences (including international airline licences), or of charter licences, under the Air Navigation Regulations.

(2.) Charges are not payable by the holder of a charter licence except in respect of a flight made in the course of regular public transport operations, as defined by the Air Navigation Regulations.

2. Charges are payable in respect of flights made between places in Australia by aircraft operated by the holders of licences referred to in the last preceding paragraph—

(a) in the case of a flight in the course of the operation of an international air service—on or after the date of commencement of this Act; and

(b) in any other case—on or after the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.

3. For the purposes of the last preceding paragraph, a flight between two places by way of an intermediate stopping place (not being Canberra, Port Moresby or the capital city of a State) or by way of intermediate stopping places (none of which is Canberra, Port Moresby or the capital city of a State shall be deemed to be a flight between those two places.