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Civil Aviation Act 1990

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

87N: Scheduled international air service licence may be granted subject to conditions

You could also call this:

“When you ask to run an international airline, the government can say yes or no and set rules”

When you apply for a scheduled international air service licence, the Secretary can decide to refuse your application or grant it fully or partly. The Secretary can also add conditions to the licence if they think it’s necessary.

The Secretary gets to choose what the licence looks like.

When granting a licence, the Secretary can set rules about:

  • Which countries or places you can fly to and what routes you can take
  • How many passengers or how much cargo you can carry
  • When you need to start your air service by

If the Secretary gives you a licence, they will put a notice in the Gazette (which is like a government newspaper) to let everyone know.

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

87NScheduled international air service licence may be granted subject to conditions

  1. The Secretary, after giving consideration to the application in accordance with section 87M, may refuse it, or may grant it wholly or partly, and subject to such conditions as the Secretary thinks fit.

  2. The scheduled international air service licence shall be in such form as the Secretary thinks fit.

  3. Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Secretary, in granting any scheduled international air service licence, may prescribe, in respect of the scheduled international air service,—

  4. the countries or territories, or points within those countries or territories that may be served and the route or routes that may be followed:
    1. the maximum capacity that may be provided:
      1. the date not later than which the service shall be commenced.

        1. Where the Secretary grants a licence in accordance with this section, the Secretary shall give notice in the Gazette that the licence has been granted.

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