Air Navigation (Amendment No. 3) Order 2010

No. S 729

Air Navigation Act

(Chapter 6)

Air Navigation (Amendment No. 3) Order 2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Air Navigation Act, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Amendment No. 3) Order 2010 and shall, with the exception of paragraphs 11 and 14, come into operation on 1st December 2010.

(2) Paragraphs 11 and 14 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 2nd August 2010.

Amendment of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2(1) of the Air Navigation Order (O 2) (referred to in this Order as the principal Order) is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (b) of the definition of “ELT” and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)	satisfies the requirements and operates in accordance with the provisions of Annex 10 to the Chicago Convention;”; and

(b)

by deleting the definition of “flight recording system” and substituting the following definition:

“ “flight recorder” means any type of recorder installed in an aircraft for the purpose of complementing an investigation into an accident or incident;”.

Amendment of paragraph 37

3. Paragraph 37 of the principal Order is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraphs (1) to (4) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(1) The holder of an air operator certificate granted under paragraph 87 and the operator of a Singapore aircraft used in any general aviation operation shall, in relation to any aircraft operated by him, at all times —

(a)	ensure that the recordings made by any flight recorder required by this Order to be carried on the aircraft are retained in accordance with the Singapore Airworthiness Requirements (SAR); and
(b)	subject to paragraph 59, preserve a record of the flight data of not less than one representative flight that has been made within the last 12 months and which includes a take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach to landing and landing, together with a means of identifying the record with the flight to which it relates.

(2) The holder of an air operator certificate granted under paragraph 87 and the operator of a Singapore aircraft used in any general aviation operation shall, if so required by the Chief Executive, preserve the recordings referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) for such period as the Chief Executive may specify in any particular case.

(3) On any flight on which a flight recorder is required by this Order to be carried, the flight recorder shall not be switched off during flight time.

(4) The operator and the pilot-in-command of an aircraft shall ensure that following an accident or a serious incident (as defined in the Air Navigation (Investigation of Accidents and Incidents) Order (O 7)), the records of every flight recorder are preserved and for this purpose, the flight recorders shall be de-activated immediately upon completion of the flight.”;

(b)

by deleting the words “The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder” in sub-paragraph (5) and substituting the words “Every flight recorder”; and

(c)

by deleting the marginal note and inserting the following paragraph heading:

“Use of flight recorders and preservation of records”.

Amendment of paragraph 51

4. Paragraph 51(1) of the principal Order is amended by deleting the definition of “Annex” and substituting the following definition:

“ “Annex” means Volume I of Annex 16 to the Chicago Convention entitled “Environmental Protection” ;”.

Amendment of paragraph 58

5. Paragraph 58(2) of the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “flight data recorder” in sub-paragraph (g) and substituting the words “flight recorder”.

Amendment of paragraph 64

6. Paragraph 64 of the principal Order is amended by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (2), the following sub-paragraph:

“(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, the reference to an aerodrome in sub-paragraph (1)(b), (d) and (f)(ii) shall include a reference to a military aerodrome.”.

Amendment of paragraph 88

7. Paragraph 88(5) of the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “flight data recorder” and substituting the words “flight recorder”.

Amendment of Fifth Schedule

8. The Fifth Schedule to the principal Order is amended —

(a)

by deleting items 5, 6 and 7 in paragraph 4 and substituting the following items:

“

Aircraft and circumstances of flight

Scale of equipment required

5. All aeroplanes which have a maximum total weight authorised exceeding 5,700 kg

6. Aeroplanes which have a maximum total weight authorised not exceeding 5,700 kg and are powered by one or more turbine engines

7. All helicopters which have a maximum total weight authorised exceeding 3,180 kg

”.

(b)

by deleting the words “A flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder” in Scale P and substituting the words “Flight recorders”; and

(c)

by deleting Scales Z and AA.

Amendment of Eleventh Schedule

9. Part I of the Eleventh Schedule to the principal Order is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “this Annex” in paragraph 2.1.2 in Chapter 2 and substituting the words “this Part”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “this Annex” in the first paragraph of Appendix 3 and substituting the words “this Part”.

Amendment of Twelfth Schedule

10. Paragraph 11 of the Twelfth Schedule to the principal Order is amended —

(a)

by deleting “$17” wherever it appears and substituting in each case “$80”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (a), the following sub-paragraphs:

“

(aa) in respect of the cancellation by a candidate of a booking for an examination of a subject referred to in sub-paragraph (a)

$30

(ab) in respect of the re-scheduling by a candidate of an examination of a subject referred to in sub-paragraph (a)

$20

”.

Amendment of Seventeenth Schedule

11. Paragraph 3 of the Seventeenth Schedule to the principal Order is amended by deleting the word “Minister” and substituting the words “Chief Executive”.

Amendment of Nineteenth Schedule

12. Paragraph 1 of Part III of the Nineteenth Schedule to the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “Convention on International Civil Aviation and any amendment thereto” in sub-paragraph (b) and substituting the words “Chicago Convention”.

Miscellaneous amendments

13. The principal Order is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “Singapore Airworthiness Requirements” in the following provisions, the word “(SAR)”:

(i)	paragraphs (2)(1) (definition of “modification”) and 8(3)(a) and (c)(ii); and
(ii)	paragraphs 6A(a) and 6B(a) of the Twelfth Schedule;

(b)

by deleting the words “and any amendment thereto” in paragraphs 20(2)(d) and (14) and 87(3) and (5); and

(c)

by deleting the words “Convention on International Civil Aviation” in Scale H of the Sixth Schedule and substituting the words “Chicago Convention”.

Savings

14. Any re-establishment of a rating specified in an air traffic controller licence under paragraph 3 of the Seventeenth Schedule to the principal Order in force immediately before 2nd August 2010 and which remains valid on that date shall, as from that date, continue and be deemed to have been re-established by the Chief Executive under paragraph 3 of the Seventeenth Schedule to the principal Order in force as from that date.

[G.N. Nos. S 573/91; S 49/92; S 60/92; S 180/92; S 61/93; S 199/93; S 8/94; S 67/98; S 325/2000; S 384/2000; S 166/2002; S 56/2003; S 440/2003; S 581/2003; S 331/2005; S 781/2005; S 487/2006; S 640/2006; S 299/2009; S 278/2010; S 423/2010]

Made this 29th day of November 2010.

CHOI SHING KWOK

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[CAAS/LE/LGN/C1.09; AG/LLRD/SL/6/2010/1 Vol. 4; CA.271.10.03.0.14]

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