No. S 268
Air Navigation Act
Chapter 6
Air Navigation (Seletar Aerodrome Fees) (Amendment) Order 2010
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(2)(o) of the Air Navigation Act, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Seletar Aerodrome Fees) (Amendment) Order 2010 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2010.
Amendment of paragraph 2
2.  Paragraph 2 of the Air Navigation (Seletar Aerodrome Fees) Order (O 4) (referred to in this Order as the principal Order) is amended —
(a)by deleting the definition of “aerodrome” and substituting the following definition:
“ “aerodrome” means the Seletar Airport declared under the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Seletar Airport) Notification 2009 (G.N. No. S 294/2009);”;
(b)by deleting the definition of “hangar fee” and substituting the following definition:
“ “emergency” means —
(a)a storm, an earthquake, a flood, a tsunami or an occurrence of a similar kind;
(b)a fire;
(c)a plague or an epidemic; or
(d)a road, rail or an air crash, or a shipping or other accident;”; and
(c)by deleting the definition of “taxi-weight” and substituting the following definition:
“ “taxi-weight” means the maximum mass of an aircraft at which structural provision is made for load during the use of the aircraft on the ground prior to the start of take-off.”.
Amendment of paragraph 5
3.  Paragraph 5 of the principal Order is amended —
(a)by deleting sub-paragraph (a) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(a)military aircraft;”; and
(b)by deleting sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:
(d)aircraft which is owned or operated by or on behalf of any person approved by the Chief Executive under the Air Navigation Order (O 2) to provide any course of flight training or instruction and which is operated for such purpose;
(e)aircraft which is operated by or on behalf of an association, authority, body or institution (whether incorporated or unincorporated) lawfully established for charitable objects exclusively for the purpose of travel by the employees or volunteers of such an association, authority, body or institution to any place outside Singapore (including transit through Singapore) —
(i)to combat the effects of any emergency at that place;
(ii)to provide emergency medical or other assistance for casualties or survivors in that place;
(iii)to reduce further damage in that place; or
(iv)to support emergency affected communities in the reconstruction and restoration of the physical infrastructure, the environment and community, psychosocial and economic well-being; and
(f)aircraft carrying the following passengers, and no others, on a flight originating from and ending in Singapore without landing in any place outside Singapore:
(i)any beneficiary of an association, authority, body or institution (whether incorporated or unincorporated) lawfully established for charitable objects; and
(ii)any employee or volunteer of such an association, authority, body or institution accompanying that beneficiary.”.
Amendment of paragraph 6
4.  Paragraph 6(1) of the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “A parking fee” and substituting the words “Subject to paragraph 7, a parking fee”.
Deletion and substitution of paragraph 7
5.  Paragraph 7 of the principal Order is deleted and the following paragraph substituted therefor:
“Exemption from payment of parking fee
6.  Every aircraft referred to in paragraph 5 is exempted from payment of any parking fee that is payable under paragraph 6.”.
Amendment of paragraph 8
7.  Paragraph 8 of the principal Order is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “or the housing of the aircraft in a hangar”;
(b)by deleting the words “or housed”; and
(c)by deleting sub-paragraph (a) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(a)another aircraft with the same taxi-weight may, with the approval of the airport licensee; and”.
Deletion of paragraph 9
8.  Paragraph 9 of the principal Order is deleted.
Amendment of paragraph 10
9.  Paragraph 10 of the principal Order is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “for housing in a hangar or”;
(b)by deleting the words “Chief Executive” and substituting the words “airport licensee”; and
(c)by deleting the words “hangar or” in the paragraph heading.
Amendment of paragraph 11
10.  Paragraph 11(2) of the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “payable by the passenger” and substituting the words “payable in respect of the passenger”.
Amendment of paragraph 12
11.  Paragraph 12 of the principal Order is amended —
(a)by deleting sub-paragraph (a) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(a)operating crew required to perform duties on an aircraft or travelling on an aircraft in order to commence duties on an aircraft from another destination but not employees of an aircraft operator travelling on its aircraft other than as part of the operating crew;”;
(b)by deleting the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (f); and
(c)by deleting sub-paragraph (g) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:
(g)Republic of Singapore military personnel travelling for military purposes on an aircraft that is not a military aircraft;
(h)any person —
(i)who is accredited as a diplomatic or consular representative of the government of any foreign territory, or is a staff member of any such diplomatic or consular representative;
(ii)who holds a valid diplomatic passport, official passport, service passport or public affairs passport issued by the government of that foreign territory; and
(iii)who is the subject of a request by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore to be treated as an exempt passenger;
(i)any head of state or head of government of a foreign territory who is recognised by Singapore (whether or not a guest of the Government) whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore requests to be treated as an exempt passenger;
(j)any person whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore recognises as a representative of an international organisation (whether or not a guest of the Government) and whom that Ministry requests to be treated as an exempt passenger;
(k)every member of the delegation travelling with a person referred to in sub-paragraph (h), (i) or (j);
(l)any employee or volunteer of an association, authority, body or institution (whether incorporated or unincorporated) lawfully established for charitable objects travelling to any place outside Singapore —
(i)to combat the effects of any emergency at that place;
(ii)to provide emergency medical or other assistance for casualties or survivors in that place;
(iii)to reduce further damage in that place; or
(iv)to support emergency affected communities in the reconstruction and restoration of the physical infrastructure, the environment and community, psychosocial and economic well-being; and
(m)any employee or volunteer of an association, authority, body or institution (whether incorporated or unincorporated) lawfully established for charitable objects accompanying any beneficiary thereof, and that beneficiary, travelling on a flight originating from and ending in Singapore without landing in any place outside Singapore.”.
Deletion of paragraph 14
12.  Paragraph 14 of the principal Order is deleted.
Amendment of Second Schedule
13.  The Second Schedule to the principal Order is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “AND HANGAR” in the Schedule heading; and
(b)by deleting the third column (Hangar fee) in Part I.
Saving
14.  Where any hangar fee which was imposed under the principal Order before the date of commencement of this Order remains unpaid on that date, such hangar fee shall remain payable as if this Order had not been made.
[G.N. Nos. S 87/2002; S 403/2002; S 531/2008; S 297/2009; S 455/2009]
Made this 10th day of May 2010.
CHOI SHING KWOK
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of .
[MOT CA.271.10.03.0.13; AG/LLRD/SL/6/2003/2 Vol. 2]