Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1988 NO. 158 CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS - REG 8

8. (1) The Authority shall keep a register of Australian aircraft.

(2) An application for the registration of an aircraft may be made by, or on
behalf of:

   (a)  where the aircraft is not an aircraft referred to in either paragraph
        (b) or (c)-the owner of the aircraft;

   (b)  where the aircraft (not being an aircraft referred to in paragraph
        (c)) is the subject of a contract of hire or charter (including a
        hire-purchase agreement) the effect of which is that the control,
        maintenance and operation of the aircraft is, or is to be, vested in a
        party to the contract-that party; or

   (c)  where the aircraft, being the subject of a hire-purchase agreement, is
        also the subject of a further contract of hire or charter between the
        purchaser under the hire-purchase agreement and another person the
        effect of which is that the control, maintenance and operation of the
        aircraft is, or is to be, vested in that other person-that other
        person.

(3) Subject to subregulation (2), an application for the registration of an
aircraft may be made by or on behalf of two or more persons who, jointly or in
common, hold an interest as owner, purchaser under a hire-purchase agreement,
hirer or charterer of the aircraft and, if such an application is made, the
applicants shall, in the application, nominate one of them as the person to
whom the Authority should issue the certificate of registration in respect of
the aircraft.

(4) The register of Australian aircraft shall be kept in accordance with such
form, and at such place or places, as the Authority determines, and shall
include the following details in relation to each aircraft:

   (a)  the date of registration of the aircraft;

   (b)  a description of the aircraft;

   (c)  the number or other identification mark given to the aircraft by the
        manufacturer;

   (d)  the nationality and registration marks referred to in regulation 16
        with respect to the aircraft;

   (e)  the name and residential address (or, in the case of a corporation,
        registered address) of the owner of the aircraft;

   (f)  in the case of an aircraft referred to in paragraph (2) (b)-the name
        and address of the purchaser under the hire-purchase agreement; and

   (g)  in the case of an aircraft referred to in paragraph (2) (c)-the name
        and address of the hirer or charterer, as the case may be, of the
        aircraft.

(5) When an aircraft is registered in the register of Australian aircraft, the
Authority or an authorised person shall issue a certificate of registration in
respect of the aircraft to:

   (a)  the person by whom or on whose behalf the application for registration
        of the aircraft was made; or

   (b)  if there are two or more such persons-that one of those persons who is
        nominated in the application for registration of the aircraft in
        accordance with subregulation (3).