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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Functions, powers, and duties of participants in the civil aviation system

18: Power to revoke aviation document or impose conditions

You could also call this:

"The Director can remove or add rules to your flying permit to keep everyone safe"

The Director of Civil Aviation can take away your aviation document or add permanent rules to it if they think it's needed to keep flying safe. This can happen after they check, watch, or look into something under this law.

The Director can also take away your document or add permanent rules if they're told by the Director of CASA (which is like the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in Australia) that you've been given an Australian temporary stop notice. But they can only do this if they think it's needed to keep flying safe.

When the Director takes away a document, they can take away all of it or just part of it.

If the Director wants to do any of these things, they have to tell you first, following the rules in section 11.

If your document gets permanent rules added or partly taken away, you must give it to the Director right away so they can write on it. If your whole document is taken away, you must give it to the Director right away.

If you don't like what the Director decides, you can ask the District Court to look at it again.

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Part 2Functions, powers, and duties of participants in the civil aviation system

18Power to revoke aviation document or impose conditions

  1. The Director may, if he or she considers it necessary in the interests of aviation safety after an inspection, monitoring, or investigation carried out under this Act, revoke an aviation document or impose permanent conditions on an aviation document.

  2. Without limiting subsection (1), the Director may revoke or impose permanent conditions on an aviation document if the Director—

  3. has been advised by the Director of CASA that CASA has given the holder of the document an Australian temporary stop notice; and
    1. considers that the revocation or imposition of permanent conditions is necessary in the interests of aviation safety.

      1. Revocation under this section may be in respect of the whole or any part of an aviation document.

      2. If the Director proposes to take action under this section, he or she must give notice in accordance with section 11, which applies as if the proposed action were a proposed adverse decision under this Act.

      3. A person whose aviation document is revoked or made subject to permanent conditions under this section must,—

      4. if the document is made subject to permanent conditions or revoked in part, immediately produce the document to the Director for appropriate endorsement:
        1. if the whole document is revoked, immediately surrender the document to the Director.

          1. Any person in respect of whom any decision is taken under this section may appeal against that decision to the District Court under section 66.

          Notes
          • Section 18: substituted, on , by section 7 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 15).
          • Section 18(1A): inserted, on , by section 11 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 8).
          • Section 18(5): amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).