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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Rules

29: Rules relating to safety and security

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"The Minister can make rules to keep people safe when flying or at airports"

The Minister can make rules to keep you safe when flying or at the airport. These rules can cover many things:

You might need to show who you are at the airport. The rules can also stop people from causing trouble at airports or places used for flying.

There are rules about how to fly planes and use the air space. These rules make sure planes are used safely and don't put people or things on the ground in danger.

The Minister can also make rules about things that might be dangerous for flying. This includes how to safely carry guns or other dangerous items on planes. It also covers building or using things that could be risky for flying.

These rules are called 'ordinary rules' and they are a type of law. You can find them published with other laws.

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Part 3Rules

29Rules relating to safety and security

  1. Without limiting the power conferred by section 28, in the interests of safety or security within the civil aviation system the Minister may make all or any of the following ordinary rules:

    1. rules providing for the use of aerodromes and other aviation related facilities, including but not limited to the following:
      1. the provision of identification procedures for persons, aircraft, and any other aviation related things:
        1. the prevention of interference with aerodromes and other aviation related facilities:
        2. general operating rules, air traffic rules, and flight rules, including but not limited to the following:
          1. the conditions under which aircraft may be used or operated, or under which any act may be performed in or from an aircraft:
            1. the prevention of aircraft endangering persons or property:
            2. rules providing for the control of things likely to be hazardous to aviation safety, including but not limited to the following:
              1. the safe carriage of firearms and other dangerous or hazardous goods or substances by air:
                1. the construction, use, or operation of anything likely to be hazardous to aviation safety.

                2. Ordinary rules under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                Notes
                • Section 29(1)(a): repealed, on , by section 11 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 91).
                • Section 29(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).