Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AIR SERVICES REGULATIONS 2019 - REG 15

When NOTAMs are published

  (1)   If required under a law mentioned in subsection   (4), AA must publish notices to be known as Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) on an information system accessible on AA's website or another electronic facility.

  (2)   AA may make the information system available to persons approved by AA.

  (3)   In addition to the circumstances mentioned in subsection   (1), AA may publish Notices to Airmen on the information system at any other time.

Information in NOTAMs

  (4)   A Notice to Airmen must include aeronautical information required to be included by any of the following:

  (a)   these Regulations;

  (b)   the Civil Aviation Act 1988 ;

  (c)   the Civil Aviation Regulations   1988 ;

  (d)   the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations   1998 ;

  (e)   any other Commonwealth law;

  (f)   the Chicago Convention.

  (5)   Notices to Airmen may include any other matter that AA is satisfied is relevant to air navigation and that could not more appropriately or effectively be dealt with in the Aeronautical Information Publication.

Timing and manner of publication

  (6)   AA must publish a Notice to Airmen:

  (a)   if a law mentioned in subsection   (4) applies--within the period (if any) and in the manner (if any) specified by that law; or

  (b)   otherwise--within a reasonable time and in the manner AA determines is appropriate.

NOTAM not a legislative instrument

  (7)   A Notice to Airmen is not a legislative instrument.