Civil Aviation Act 1990

International air services licensing - Open aviation market licences

87U: Open aviation market licence may be granted subject to conditions

You could also call this:

"Aviation officials can grant special flying licences with rules"

Illustration for Civil Aviation Act 1990

When you apply for an open aviation market licence, the Secretary can decide to approve or deny your request. They might approve all or part of it, and they can add conditions to the licence if they think it's necessary.

If the Secretary gives you a licence, they will tell you which countries or territories you can fly to for your scheduled and unscheduled international flights.

The Secretary gets to decide what the licence looks like.

After the Secretary grants a licence, they will put a notice in the Gazette (which is like a government newsletter) to let everyone know that you got the licence.

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Topics:

Transport and travel > Air travel

87T: Consideration of application for open aviation market licence, or

"How the government decides if you can fly planes between countries"

87V: Duration of open aviation market licence, or

"How long an open aviation market licence lasts and what happens when it's renewed"

Part 8AInternational air services licensing
Open aviation market licences

87UOpen aviation market licence may be granted subject to conditions

The Secretary, after giving consideration to the application in accordance with section 87T, may refuse it, or may grant it wholly or partly, and subject to such conditions as the Secretary thinks fit.
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Secretary, in granting any open aviation market licence, shall prescribe, in respect of any scheduled international air service and non-scheduled international flight carried on pursuant to the licence, the countries or territories that may be served.
The open aviation market licence shall be in such form as the Secretary thinks fit.
Where the Secretary grants an open aviation market licence under this section, the Secretary shall give notice in the Gazette that the licence has been granted.

Notes

Section 87U: inserted, on 13 August 1996, by section 28 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 91).