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Civil Aviation Act 1990

International air services licensing - Scheduled international air service licences for foreign international airlines

87L: Secretary to be licensing authority for foreign international airlines

You could also call this:

“Government official decides if foreign airlines can fly to New Zealand”

The Secretary is in charge of giving licences to foreign airlines that want to run scheduled international air services to and from New Zealand. The Secretary also looks after these licences according to the rules in this part of the law.

Sometimes, a foreign airline from a country that doesn’t have an air service agreement with New Zealand might want a licence. In this case, the Minister, not the Secretary, will decide about the licence. The Minister will use the same rules that the Secretary usually follows.

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Part 8A International air services licensing
Scheduled international air service licences for foreign international airlines

87LSecretary to be licensing authority for foreign international airlines

  1. Subject to subsection (2), the Secretary shall be the licensing authority to grant scheduled international air service licences to foreign international airlines and to exercise jurisdiction in respect of those licences in accordance with this Part.

  2. Where the applicant for a scheduled international air service licence is a foreign international airline of a country or territory with which New Zealand does not have an air service agreement or similar arrangement, the application shall be referred to the Minister for determination in accordance with sections 87M to 87O as if the references in those sections to the Secretary were references to the Minister.

Notes
  • Section 87L: inserted, on , by section 28 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 91).