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Air Navigation Act 1966 PART 2A — AIR TRANSPORT UNDERTAKINGS

s 61–s 62 · 2 sections

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Division 3 — Repealed

Information as to air transport undertakings and use of customs aerodromes

s 61

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61.—(1) The Minister may make regulations —(a) requiring any person —(i) who carries on the business of carrying passengers or goods in aircraft for hire or reward on any journeys or classes of journeys (whether beginning and ending at the same point or at different points) that may be specified in the regulations; or (ii) who is the holder of a licence in respect of a customs aerodrome, to provide to the authorities that may be specified in the regulations any information relating to the use of aircraft for the purpose of the person’s business and to the persons employed in connection with that use, or (as the case may be) relating to the use of the aerodrome and to the persons employed in aircraft arriving at the aerodrome or departing therefrom, that may be prescribed by the regulations; (b) requiring the owner, or the pilot or other person in charge, of any aircraft arriving at, or departing from, any customs aerodrome to provide to the holder of the licence in respect of that aerodrome any information that may be necessary to enable the holder of the licence to comply with any of the provisions of the regulations that relate to the holder of the licence; (c) prescribing the times at which, and the form and manner in which, any information required under the regulations is to be provided, except that a person carrying on such a business as is mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) is not required to provide information relating to the use of aircraft on journeys wholly outside Singapore, or relating to persons exclusively employed outside Singapore, unless the person carrying on the business is either a citizen of Singapore or of a Commonwealth country or a body corporate incorporated under the law of Singapore. (2) Regulations made under this section may provide for imposing on any person who contravenes any provision of the regulations such penalties (not exceeding a fine of $500 and a further fine of $100 for every day during which the contravention continues after conviction) as may be specified in the regulations. (3) Any information with respect to any particular undertaking which has been obtained by virtue of regulations made under this section must not, without the consent of the person carrying on that undertaking, be disclosed otherwise than in connection with the execution of such regulations, and if any person discloses any such information in contravention of this subsection, the person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. (4) Nothing in subsection (3) applies to the disclosure of any information for the purposes of any legal proceedings which may be taken by virtue of this subsection or of regulations made under this section, or for the purpose of any report of those proceedings, but, save as aforesaid, the restriction imposed by this subsection, in relation to any legal proceedings (including arbitrations), extends so as to prohibit and prevent any person who is in possession of any such information so obtained from disclosing, and from being required by any court or arbitrator to disclose that information (whether as a witness or otherwise) except with the consent of the person carrying on the undertaking to which the information relates. (5) In this section, “customs aerodrome” means an aerodrome for the time being appointed as a place of landing and departure of aircraft for the purposes of any written law relating to customs.[15

Licensing of air transport and commercial flying

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62.—(1) The Minister may make regulations —(a) to secure that aircraft must not be used in Singapore by any person —(i) for flying, while carrying passengers or goods for hire or reward, on any journeys or classes of journeys (whether beginning and ending at the same point or at different points) that may be specified in the regulations; or (ii) for such flying undertaken for the purpose of any trade or business as may be so specified, except under the authority of, and in accordance with, a licence or permit granted by any licensing authority that is specified in the regulations; (b) providing that an eligibility certificate or document is required to be obtained before a licence or permit may be granted or continue to be held under the regulations; (c) providing for applications for an eligibility certificate or document mentioned in paragraph (b) and for the circumstances in which the certificate or document may or must be granted, refused, revoked or suspended by such licensing authority as is specified in the regulations; (d) as to the circumstances in which a licence or permit under the regulations may or must be granted, refused, revoked or suspended, and in particular as to the matters to which the licensing authority specified in the regulations is to have regard in deciding whether to grant or refuse the licence or permit; (e) as to appeals to the Minister against decisions by any licensing authority under the regulations with regard to any eligibility certificate or document mentioned in paragraph (b) or any licence or permit; (f) requiring prior consent or approval from any licensing authority that is specified in the regulations to the transfer or assignment of any licence or permit; (g) as to the conditions which may be attached to an eligibility certificate or document mentioned in paragraph (b), or a licence or permit (including conditions as to the fares, freight or other charges to be charged by the holder of the licence or permit), and for securing compliance with any conditions so attached; (h) as to the information to be provided by an applicant for, or the holder of, an eligibility certificate or document mentioned in paragraph (b), or a licence or permit to any authorities that may be specified in the regulations; (i) prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of the application for and the grant of any eligibility certificate or document mentioned in paragraph (b), or a licence or permit under the regulations, and such regulations may make different provision as respects different classes of aircraft and different classes of eligibility certificates or documents, licences and permits. (2) Regulations made under this section may, for the purpose of securing compliance with those regulations, provide for the imposition of the following penalties:(a) in the case of a first offence under the regulations, a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or both; and (b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence under the regulations, a fine not exceeding $50,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or both.[16

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