Air Navigation (Seletar Aerodrome Fees) Order

Air Navigation Act

(CHAPTER 6, Section 3(2)(o))

O 4

G.N. No. S 227/1990

REVISED EDITION 2000

(31st August 2000)

[1st June 1990]

Citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Seletar Aerodrome Fees) Order.

Definitions

2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires —

“aerodrome” means the Seletar Airport declared under the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Seletar Airport) Notification 2009 (G.N. No. S 294/2009);

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“airport licensee” means the holder of an airport licence that is granted under section 36 of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009 (Act 17 of 2009) for the aerodrome;

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“Authority” means the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore reconstituted under the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009;

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“Chief Executive” means the chief executive appointed under section 11 of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009, and includes any person acting in that capacity;

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“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; [S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

“landing fee” means the fee prescribed by paragraph 3;

“parking fee” means the fee prescribed by paragraph 6;

“passenger security service charge” means the charge of that description specified in paragraph 11(1);

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“passenger service charge” means the charge of that description specified in paragraph 11(1);

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“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.

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Landing fee

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs 4 and 5 and any exemption granted under any other written law, a landing fee at the rate specified in the First Schedule shall be paid to the airport licensee in respect of each landing of an aircraft at the aerodrome except that the landing fee for a helicopter shall be 50% of the landing fee for a fixed wing aircraft of the same taxi-weight.

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(2) For the purpose of calculating the landing fee, the weight of the aircraft shall be the taxi-weight of the aircraft except that when a restriction is placed by the chief executive officer on the taxi-weight of an aircraft operating from the aerodrome, the maximum landing fee charged for such aircraft shall be based on the restricted taxi-weight until such time as the restriction is lifted.

Reduction of landing fee

4. Where the flight is solely for the purpose of training and testing flying personnel, or testing the aircraft or instruments of the aircraft, the landing fee shall be reduced by 75% if the permission of the Chief Executive for such flight has been obtained before the flight is undertaken.

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Exemption from payment of landing fee

5. The following aircraft are exempted from payment of the landing fee:

(a)

military aircraft;

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(b)

foreign diplomatic aircraft engaged on diplomatic or consular missions to Singapore;

(c)

aircraft used for Government ceremonial purposes;

(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;

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(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 [S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

(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. [S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

Parking fee

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph 7, a parking fee at the rate specified in Part I of the Second Schedule shall be paid to the airport licensee for the parking of an aircraft at any place in the aerodrome for each period of 24 hours or part thereof.

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(2) The parking time shall begin when the aircraft lands at the aerodrome and end when it takes off.

(3) No parking fee shall be payable for the parking of an aircraft for the first 3 hours.

(4) The area occupied by an aircraft for the purpose of calculating the parking fee shall be the product of the span of the aircraft and its maximum length.

(5) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (6), where an aircraft is parked at any place in the aerodrome for a continuous period of 30 days or more, the fee payable for the parking of the aircraft shall be at the rate specified in Part II of the Second Schedule.

(6) The airport licensee may in its discretion permit an aircraft to be parked at any place in the aerodrome on a monthly basis at a fee, payable in advance, which shall be 26 times the parking fee payable for the parking of the aircraft for a period of 24 hours.

Exemption from payment of parking fee

7. Every aircraft referred to in paragraph 5 is exempted from payment of any parking fee that is payable under paragraph 6.

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Use of paid parking space by other aircraft

8. Where any fee has been paid in respect of an aircraft for the parking of the aircraft on a monthly basis and the aircraft is not parked in the space provided for it —

(a)	another aircraft with the same taxi-weight may, with the approval of the airport licensee; and [S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]
(b)	no rebate of the fee shall be granted under any circumstances.

9. [Deleted by S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

Owner or commander of aircraft to sign required form before using aerodrome

10. No aircraft shall be accepted for parking at the aerodrome unless the owner or commander of the aircraft signs such form as the airport licensee may require.

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Charges to be paid by passengers

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph 12, the following charges shall be paid to the airport licensee by every passenger embarking on an aircraft at the aerodrome on or after 1st October 2009:

(a)	a passenger service charge of $6.90 for passenger-related services and facilities at the aerodrome; and
(b)	a passenger security service charge of $8 for security systems and services (including X-ray machines and closed circuit surveillance systems) for the screening of passengers and their baggage at the aerodrome.

(2) The airport licensee may collect from each passenger the passenger service charge and the passenger security service charge referred to in sub-paragraph (1) in a lump sum together with the aviation levy that is payable in respect of the passenger and that the airport licensee is designated under the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Aviation Levy) Order 2009 (G.N. No. S 459/2009) to collect on behalf of the Authority.

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Exemption from payment of passenger service charge and passenger security service charge

12. The following persons are exempted from payment of the passenger service charge and passenger security service charge:

(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;

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(b)

any passenger aboard any aircraft specified in paragraph 5;

(c)

any passenger who does not leave the transit area or who leaves the transit area because of interruption to a flight at the aerodrome caused by the unserviceability of an aircraft or the unavailability of an essential facility or caused by delay beyond the control of the passenger or the airline operator concerned;

(d)

any passenger who, as evidenced by his passenger ticket, is scheduled to depart from Singapore by an aircraft within 24 hours of his scheduled time of arrival for a destination in another country other than the country from which he embarked on the aircraft by which he arrived in Singapore;

(e)

infants below the age of two years;

(f)

service personnel and their dependants embarking on aircraft operating on charter flights on behalf of the Joint Services Movement Control of the United Kingdom;

(g)

Republic of Singapore military personnel travelling for military purposes on an aircraft that is not a military aircraft;

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(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; [S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

(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;

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(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;

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(k)

every member of the delegation travelling with a person referred to in sub-paragraph (h), (i) or (j);

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(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 [S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

(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.

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All fees, except passenger service charge and passenger security service charge, to be paid by commander of aircraft

13.—(1) Except as approved in writing by the Chief Executive, all fees payable under this Order, other than the passenger service charge and passenger security service charge, shall be paid by the commander of the aircraft in respect of which the fees are payable without any demand being made before the aircraft departs from the aerodrome.

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(2) If any fee is not paid by the commander of an aircraft to the airport licensee in accordance with sub-paragraph (1), it shall be a debt due to the airport licensee jointly and severally from the owner and the commander of the aircraft in respect of which the fee is payable.

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(3) For the purpose of enforcing payment of any fee under this Order, the airport licensee may refuse to permit an aircraft to take off from the aerodrome until the fee has been paid.

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(4) No abatement of any fee shall be allowed in the event of any aerodrome service, assistance or other facility being not available.

(5) [Deleted by S 403/2002 wef 15/08/2002]

14. [Deleted by S 268/2010 wef 01/06/2010]

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