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Air Navigation Act

(CHAPTER 6, Section 16)

Air Navigation (Licensing of Air Services) Regulations

Rg 2

G.N. No. S 344/1974

REVISED EDITION 2009

(31st March 2009)

[1st January 1975]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Licensing of Air Services) Regulations.

(2) These Regulations shall not apply to any flight referred to in paragraph 2 of the Air Navigation (Prohibited Flights) Order (O 6).

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Agreement” means the International Air Services Transit Agreement adopted at Chicago on 7th December 1944;

“air service” means any service comprising the carriage of passengers, mail or cargo for hire or reward by means of an aircraft;

“air services agreement” means an agreement or arrangement entered into between the Government and the government of another country under which the provision of air services is permitted;

“Authority” means the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore established under section 3 of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 41);

“chief executive officer” means the chief executive officer of the Authority and includes any person authorised by him to act on his behalf and any person acting in that capacity;

“Committee” means the Air Traffic Rights Committee established under regulation 2D;

“country” includes a territory;

“non-scheduled journey” means a journey that is not scheduled;

“permit” means a permit granted under regulation 15;

“provisional licence” means a licence granted under regulation 9;

“scheduled journey” means a journey which is undertaken between the same 2 places and a series of which constitutes a systematic service operated in such a manner that the benefits thereof are available to members of the public from time to time seeking to take advantage of them.

No air service to be provided without licence

2A.—(1) Subject to these Regulations, no person shall provide any air services upon any scheduled journey between 2 or more places of which at least one is in Singapore, except under and in accordance with a licence granted under Part IA or II.

(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both.

(3) This regulation shall not apply to —

(a)	any person who provides any air services under and in accordance with any air services agreement as an airline designated, nominated or otherwise authorised by the government of another country under that air services agreement; or
(b)	the airline of any country which is a party to the Agreement where its aircraft merely flies across Singapore without landing, or where its aircraft lands in Singapore, in accordance with the provisions of that Agreement.