Queensland Consolidated Acts

AIR NAVIGATION ACT 1937 - SECT 9

9 Purpose of this part

The purpose of this part is to make in Queensland such provision for and in relation to, and to so regulate and control, air navigation, aircraft, their operation whether in the air or on the ground, the carriage on aircraft of persons or goods, aerodromes, and all other matters and things connected with air navigation, aircraft, their operation whether in the air or on the ground, the carriage on aircraft of persons or goods, and aerodromes, as may be necessary or expedient to secure and maintain at all times the safety of aircraft and of persons or goods carried on aircraft, and in particular, for the purpose of securing and maintaining safety as aforesaid, to apply to and in relation to air navigation within Queensland by virtue of this part, the regulations to the extent but only to the extent to which the regulations provide for, prescribe, regulate and control—

(a) conditions of flight of aircraft;

(b) the registration and marking of aircraft;

(c) certificates of airworthiness for aircraft, including aircraft engines, airscrews or other components of any aircraft, which certificates may be provided for, prescribed, regulated and controlled for different types of aircraft according to the respective types thereof;

(d) the manning of aircraft and the qualifications and competence of members of the crew thereof according to the respective capacities in which they act, including certificates of competency and licences in respect of pilots, navigators, radio operators and other members of aircraft crews, which certificates and licences may be provided for, prescribed, regulated and controlled differently as respects aircraft used for different purposes;

(e) the safety of services for the carriage by air of persons, or goods, or both for hire or reward;

(f) the log books to be kept and carried on aircraft, including separate such books relating to the aircraft, its journey, its engines or any of them, its airscrews or any of them, its wireless apparatus, any other component thereof, signals and the pilot, the particulars and information to be entered in any such log book, and the persons by whom and the times when any such entries are to be made therein;

(g) the installation on aircraft of wireless telegraph apparatus and the operation and use of such apparatus;

(h) the investigation of accidents and forced landings of aircraft;

(i) the use of aerodromes;

(j) the suspension or cancellation of certificates or licences issued under the regulations.