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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Regulations and miscellaneous provisions - Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol

439: Deregistration requests

You could also call this:

"How to ask for an aircraft to be removed from the official list"

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If you want to deregister an aircraft, you or someone you choose can ask the Director to do this. You must follow the rules set out in section 438(3) and fill out the correct form. You will be acting as an authorised party, which means you have permission to make decisions about the aircraft.

You must write down that the aircraft is not being used to secure any other debts, or if it is, the person who lent the money agrees to deregister the aircraft. When you ask to deregister the aircraft, you may need to pay a fee.

If the Director gets your request and it has all the right information, they must cancel the aircraft's registration as soon as possible, but no more than 5 working days after they get your request. After the Director cancels the registration, the CAA will remove the aircraft from the New Zealand Register of Aircraft.

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

439Deregistration requests

  1. An authorised party (or the authorised party’s certified designee) may, in accordance with the relevant irrevocable deregistration and export request authorisation recorded under section 438(3), submit a deregistration request in the prescribed form to the Director.

  2. In a request submitted under subsection (1), the authorised party must certify in writing that—

  3. the aircraft is not subject to any registered interest that ranks in priority to the international interest that the authorised party holds in the aircraft; or
    1. if the aircraft is subject to a registered interest that ranks in priority to the international interest that the authorised party holds in the aircraft, the holder of the higher-ranking registered interest has consented to the deregistration and exportation of the aircraft.

      1. A request under subsection (1) must be accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any).

      2. If the Director receives a request under subsection (1) that is accompanied by the applicable statement specified in subsection (2), the Director must revoke the relevant certificate of registration—

      3. as soon as practicable; but
        1. in any event, within 5 working days of receiving the request.

          1. If the Director revokes a certificate of registration under subsection (4), the CAA must remove the registration from the New Zealand Register of Aircraft.

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