AVIATION AMENDMENT ACT

NO. 64 OF 1980

[ASSENTED TO 6 MAY, 1980][DATE OF 
COMMENCEMENT TO BE PROCLAIMED]

(English text signed by the State President)

ACT

To amend the provisions of the Aviation Act, 1962, so as to 
enable the Minister of Transport Affairs to provide by 
regulation for the disposal of certain vehicles left under certain 
circumstances on the premises of certain aerodromes; and to 
provide for incidental matters.

1.   Amendment of section 22 of Act 74 of 1962, as amended by 
section 5 of Act 12 of 1965, section 3 of Act 83 of 1969 and 
section 25 of Act 62 of 1973.—Section 22 of the Aviation Act, 
1962, is hereby amended by the substitution for subparagraph 
(ii) of paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of the following 
subparagraph:

“(ii)the prohibition or the regulation of vehicular or other traffic 
within such aerodrome, including—

(aa)the parking of vehicles therein, the demarcation of places, 
and the imposition of fees, for such parking and the manner of 
payment of such fees;

(bb)the circumstances in which and the persons by whom it may 
be decided whether any vehicle parked within such aerodrome 
has been abandoned;

(cc)the steps to be taken to trace the owner or possessor of or 
any other person having an interest in such vehicle;

(dd)the storage, removal, sale or any other manner of disposal of 
such vehicle;

(ee)the liability of such owner, possessor or other person for any 
costs relating to the abandonment of any such vehicle, the 
tracing of such owner, possessor or other person and the 
storage, removal, sale or any other manner of disposal of such 
vehicle, and the manner in which such costs may be recovered 
from such owner, possessor or other person;

(ff)the utilization of the proceeds of the sale or any other 
manner of disposal of such vehicle and the circumstances in 
which such proceeds may be utilized to defray the costs referred 
to in subparagraph (ee);

(gg)the circumstances in which the State and its officials and 
employees shall not be liable for loss of or damage to or relating 
to any vehicle parked within such aerodrome,

and the meaning of the word ‘parked’ for the purposes of this 
subparagraph;”.

2.   Short title and commencement.—This Act shall be called 
the Aviation Amendment Act, 1980, and shall come into 
operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation 
in the Gazette.