127Aircraft parking areas

127 Aircraft parking areas (1) The Secretary may designate a part of an airport established under regulation 9 to be an area for the parking of aircraft of a specified kind by means of signs, notices or markers placed about the area: (a) that identify that area; (b) that specify the kind of aircraft that may be parked in the area; and (c) that specify the conditions (if any) subject to which aircraft of that kind may be parked in that area. (2) Where an aircraft has been left standing at such an airport in contravention of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988, the Secretary may, by notice in writing served on a person who is a relevant person in relation to the aircraft, direct that person: (a) to remove the aircraft from the airport; or (b) except in the case of a contravention of subregulation (7), to remove the aircraft to an area specified by the Secretary in the notice; within such time as is specified in the notice. (3) A notice under subregulation (2) may be served: (a) by leaving it with or tendering it to a relevant person; (b) by posting it to a relevant person in a prepaid registered letter; or (c) if a relevant person cannot be found or his or her address is not known, by affixing it to the aircraft to which it relates. (4) A relevant person shall comply with the directions contained in a notice served on him or her under this regulation. (5) Where a relevant person fails to comply with the directions contained in a notice served on the person under this regulation, the Secretary may authorize an officer, with such assistance (if any) as the officer requires, to carry out the directions contained in the notice. (6) Where an aircraft is left standing in contravention of this regulation for more than one day, the owner, operator and hirer are guilty of a separate contravention for each day on which the aircraft is so left standing. (7) An aircraft that is not certified as airworthy shall not, without the permission in writing of the Secretary, be left standing for a period exceeding 12 weeks in an area that the Secretary has, under subregulation (1), designated to be an area for the parking of aircraft of a kind to which that aircraft belongs. (8) In this regulation, relevant person, in relation to an aircraft means: (a) the owner, operator, hirer or pilot in command of the aircraft; or (b) a person apparently in charge of the aircraft at the time of the service of the notice on him or her.