AVIATION AMENDMENT ACT

NO. 16 OF 1992

[ASSENTED TO 3 MARCH, 1992][DATE OF 
COMMENCEMENT: 1 OCTOBER, 1992]

(English text signed by the State President)

ACT

To amend the Aviation Act, 1962, so as to insert certain 
definitions; to replace the definition of “Minister”; to provide 
for the appointment and functions of and vacating of office by 
the Commissioner for Civil Aviation; to replace certain obsolete 
expressions; and to increase the penalties for offences in terms 
of the said Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

1.   Amends section 1 of the Aviation Act, No. 74 of 1962, as 
follows:—paragraph (a) inserts the definitions of “authorized 
officer” and “Commissioner”; paragraph (b) inserts the 
definition of “department”; paragraph (c) inserts the definition 
of “inspector”; and paragraph (d) substitutes the definition of 
“Minister”.

2.   Inserts section 5 in the Aviation Act, No. 74 of 1962.

3.   Amends section 12 of the Aviation Act, No. 74 of 1962, by 
substituting subsections (5) and (6).

4.   Amends section 19 of the Aviation Act, No. 74 of 1962, by 
substituting subsection (1).

5.   (1)  Amends section 22 (1) of the Aviation Act, No. 74 of 
1962, by substituting paragraph (a)bis.

(2)  Any person designated under any regulation by virtue of 
any provision of section 22 (1) (a)bis of the principal Act and 
who is so designated immediately before the sub- stitution of 
that section by subsection (1), shall be deemed to be an 
inspector or authorized officer, as the case may be, designated 
in terms of section 5 (4) (a) of the principal Act by the 
Commissioner for Civil Aviation.

6.   Amends section 22A of the Aviation Act, No. 74 of 1962, 
by substituting the expression “department” for the expression 
“Department of Transport” in subsections (5) and (6).

7.   Short title and commencement.—(1)  This Act shall be 
called the Aviation Amendment Act, 1992, and shall come into 
operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation 
in the Gazette.

(2)  Different dates may be so fixed in respect of different 
provisions of this Act.