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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Regulations and miscellaneous provisions - Regulations - Recovery of fees, charges, and levies

423: Recovery of fees, charges, and levies

You could also call this:

"Paying for services done to your aircraft"

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If you own an aircraft, you have to pay fees, charges, or levies when the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) or the Director does something for your aircraft. You are liable to pay these fees if your name is on the New Zealand Register of Aircraft. You do not have to pay if you can prove you did not have the aircraft when the CAA or Director did something for it, or if someone else had it. You also need to tell the CAA who had the aircraft, if it was not you, and you must try to give them the information they need to find out who had it, as seen in similar legislation such as the s 42 of 1990.

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Part 10Regulations and miscellaneous provisions
Regulations: Recovery of fees, charges, and levies

423Recovery of fees, charges, and levies

  1. If a fee, charge, or levy is payable under this Act in respect of any function, power, duty, or service performed or exercised by the CAA or the Director in respect of any aircraft, the person whose name appears on the New Zealand Register of Aircraft in respect of that aircraft is liable to pay that fee, charge, or levy.

  2. Any person who would otherwise be liable to pay a fee, charge, or levy under subsection (1) is not liable if the person—

  3. proves—
    1. that during any relevant period of use of the aircraft the person was not entitled, whether alone or together with some other person, to possession of the aircraft; or
      1. that another person was lawfully or unlawfully in possession of the aircraft; and
      2. has taken all reasonable steps to supply the CAA with information that would identify another person who, instead of the person on the Register of Aircraft, was lawfully or unlawfully in possession of the aircraft at the time the function, power, duty, or service was performed or exercised in respect of the aircraft.

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