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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Regulations and miscellaneous provisions - Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol

433: Interpretation in this Part

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In this part of the law, you need to know what some words mean. The Aircraft Protocol refers to a special agreement about equipment on planes, which was signed in Cape Town in 2001, and you can find the English version in the Schedule 8. The Cape Town Convention is another agreement about equipment that can be moved, also signed in Cape Town in 2001, and you can find the English version in the Schedule 7.

When you read this part of the law, some words have special meanings. A Contracting State is a country that has agreed to the Cape Town Convention and the Aircraft Protocol. A declaration is something New Zealand has said under these agreements. A deregistration request is when someone asks to remove a plane's registration from the New Zealand Aircraft Register. A removal request is when someone asks to remove a special authorisation from the New Zealand Aircraft Register.

If a word is used in this part of the law and it is also in the Cape Town Convention or the Aircraft Protocol, it means the same thing as it does in those agreements.

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Part 10Regulations and miscellaneous provisions
Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol

433Interpretation in this Part

  1. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    Aircraft Protocol means the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment,—

    1. which opened for signature at Cape Town on 16 November 2001; and
      1. the English text of which is set out in Schedule 8

        Cape Town Convention means the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment,—

        1. which opened for signature at Cape Town on 16 November 2001; and
          1. the English text of which is set out in Schedule 7

            Contracting State means a State that is a party to the Cape Town Convention and the Aircraft Protocol

              declaration means a declaration made by New Zealand under the Cape Town Convention or the Aircraft Protocol

                deregistration request means a request for the removal of the registration of an aircraft from the New Zealand Aircraft Register

                  removal request means a request for the removal of an irrevocable deregistration and export request authorisation from the New Zealand Aircraft Register.

                  1. In this Part, any term defined in the Cape Town Convention or the Aircraft Protocol and used in this Part has the same meaning as in the Cape Town Convention or the Aircraft Protocol.

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